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Eating Issues and Body Image Awareness Week: Keynote Address Featuring Kathleen MacDonald
(Special Event)
Ms. Kathleen MacDonald will deliver a personal and informative keynote address followed by a viewing of the HBO movie "THIN." Kathleen is the Education/Prevention Coordinator for the F.R.E.E.D. Foundation (For Recovery and Elimination of Eating Disorders) and is the humbled survivor of a battle with eating and body image issues. She will share her intimate story of recovery, focus on media influence on body image, offer suggestions of how to help a friend and discuss available resources to the Virginia Tech and surrounding community. The documentary "THIN" features the challenging recovery efforts of a Virginia Tech Alumna Pollack "Polly" Ann Williams. Polly graduated with honors from Virginia Tech with a major in English and a minor in Communications and will be missed by those whose lives she touched. More information...
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