Name: Hudson McDonald

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Body Image and Social Media

Date of Fieldwork: February 4, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Lauren Smolar, at National Eating Disorder Association

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

We interviewed Lauren Smolar on her experience working for the National Eating Disorder. She talked to us about how big of an impact the media can have on peoples perception of themselves. She also told us about how social media can help bring people with eating disorders together to share their experience, which are some things the organization is working to do at the end of this month for National Eating Disorders Awarness Week. She talked about how many people struggle with eating disorders, but social media isn’t the only infulence of it.

I really enjoyed this interview because we have the perspective of a professional and we get to learn about what NEDA is working to do next. I also enjoyed this because it showed that social media doesn’t always has to be negitive, and just has to be fixed. My group and I will take this information and incorperate it into further reashearch.