Disability Justice and Eating Disorders

with Allilsa Fernandez, EMT

Disability’s impact the way we eat, move and exist in the world and often times BMI is placed before a person, leading to neglect, genocide, and individual harm and/or death. When the disabled person is Black, Indigenous or a Person of Color the harm is exacerbated. 

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Allilsa Fernandez, EMT

Allilsa Fernandez is a mental health and disability advocate, activist and consultant. They have worked with companies such as Facebook, Lionsgate, Verizon, and ReelAbilities Los Angeles. In addition, they have volunteered with Sylvia Rivera Law Project on shelter organizing, with Met Council on housing justice, and NYC mutual aid providing aid to people across NYC. Allilsa has also worked with diverse organizations, companies, and politicians such as Janos Marton, to create intersectional mental health policies. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Stony Brook University with a bachelor in Psychology, and completed her fellowships with The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation, and Latino Justice Law Bound. Their work has been featured in Forbes Magazine and the Laura Flanders show.