Kitty Westin, founder and former president of the Anna Westin Foundation, will give a presentation on Monday, Feb. 9, at 4 p.m. in the Memorial Union Century Theater. The NDSU Counseling Center is sponsoring the event in celebration of National Eating Disorders Awareness month.
For the past eight years, Westin has spent the majority of her time speaking to groups, offering support and guidance to people with eating disorders and advocating for an end to discrimination against people with eating disorders.
The Westin family started the Anna Westin Foundation, which recently merged with the Emily Program Foundation, after Anna died in 2000. Her death was caused by anorexia. The Westins also started the first and only residential program to treat people with eating disorders in Minnesota.
Westin also is the president of the Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy and Action, serves on the Academy for Eating Disorders Patient Career Task Force, and is co-chair of the Academy for Eating Disorders Advocacy Committee. Westin helped create the Federal Response to Eliminating Eating Disorders Act, which will be introduced to Congress early next year.
For more information, contact Marlys Borkhuis at 1-7680 or marlys.borkhuis@ndsu.edu.
Feb. 2, 2009