Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Resources

D.E.I. Committee

Kayla Lawson
Committee Chair

Matthew Frakes

Shelly Guzman Johnson

Isaac Hicks

Samantha Partida

DE&I Resources

Nutrition Related Books

Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat: A Story of Bulimia, Stephanie Covington Armstrong
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
The Body is Not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor
A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems, Becky Thompson
Through THICK and Thin and Thick Again: A Black Woman’s Journey with BED by Nettie Reeves-Lewis
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Cookbooks

The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, Toni Tipton-Martin
Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking, Toni Tipton-Martin
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, Michael Twitty
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America, Jessica Harris
Every Nation Has It's Dish: Black Food and Black Bodies in Twentieth Century America, Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Latin d’Lite: Delicious Latin Recipes with a Healthy Twist by Ingrid Hoffman
Southern Food and Civil Rights, Frederick Douglass Opie

Educational Articles

Mental Health Stigma by Gloria Oladipo
Eating Disorder Stereotypes
“It’s Time to Correct the Narrative Surrounding Black Girls and Eating Disorders” by Anissa Gray
“When Black Girls Hear That ‘Our Bodies Are All Wrong’” by Mikki Kendall
“Black Women Suffer from Eating Disorders too, Stop Pushing Us out of Those Conversations” by Clarkisha Kent
“Women of Color: The Eating Disorder Survivors who Suffer in Silence” by Achea Redd

Organizations

Research

Race, Social Class, & Bulimia Nervosa (Goeree, Ham, & Iorio, 2011)
Prevalence of Eating Disorders among Blacks in the National Survey of American Life (Taylor, Caldwell, Baser, Faison, & Jackson, 2007)

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Educate yourselves, empower your colleagues and uplift your communities by completing at least one action item monthly.

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