Virgie Tovar is an author, lecturer, and one of the nation’s leading experts and trainers on weight-based discrimination and body image. A Forbes.com contributor since 2018, she covers how weight bias shapes work, media, fashion, and the plus-size market.

She is also the hosts GLP-1 Truth Serum, a podcast bringing critical questions to the injectable weight-loss boom.

She is the author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color, and The Body Positive Journal. She created the #LoseHateNotWeight campaign and delivered a TEDx talk on its origins.

Vigie has received Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism and Project HEAL’s Inspire Award, and has been featured by the New York Times, NPR, Dr. Phil and the BBC. She has co-designed and collaborated with Meta, Converse and Dove, and trained teams at Georgetown, UC Berkeley, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Square and Waymo. She lives in San Francisco.

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