In conjunction with a year-long practicum with the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), this project was created to support staff as they fill a gap in services. NCCJ is an organization that provides diversity and inclusion education to various groups across the country; and their work educates clients on a number of identities that are commonly targeted. Currently, they are attempting to amplify their training on the topic of sizeism, discrimination bassed on a person’s perceived weight. Trainers have expressed that they would like additional support as they train on this topic, which was the catalyst for this project. To support the training staff at NCCJ, a number of actions were taken: research was conducted to better understand the impact of sizeism, size-related questions were added to the equity assessment that is sent to companies to determine how they can create inclusive environments, a resource library was created for trainers to utilize, a five faces of oppression matrix and a cycle of socialization were made to contextualize the issue, and, finally, all of this information was combined to create an in-service training for staff members. All of these actions were completed to improve the experience of our clients and to advance research and conversations surrounding the issue of sizeism.

Kate would like to thank their faculty sponsor Pamela Huggins for their support of this project.