Ophira Edut is a writer, editor, designer and social entrepreneur who has spent a decade creating independent media projects for young women of all cultures and sizes. A contributor to numerous magazines and anthologies, Ophira lectures nationwide about body image, media, and culture. Ophira is the co-owner of Mediarology, a media consulting and creative services company based in New York City. In 1992, she founded the national, multicultural young women's magazine HUES (Hear Us Emerging Sisters), an award-winning national young women's magazine that was published until 1999. ....READ MORE >

LoveYourBody.org creates media and educational programs promoting healthy body image for people of all cultures and sizes.We believe that body image happens in the mind. In fact, body image has very little to do with one's actual body. Rather, it comes from messages, beliefs, habits and self-talk--mixed with a little neurobiology--which together can form a distorted "image" of how we appear. Then, throw Madison Avenue into the mix. Consider the influence and pressue from the multi-billion-dollar diet and advertising industries: the average American sees 400-600 ads per day! How do we process what we see? Do we question it, or simply ingest it? Our "literacy" can powerfully shape our self-perception....READ MORE >