Speakers
Megan A. Kniskern MS, RD, LD/N, CEDS-C
Registered Dietitian
Megan has committed 15+ years to growing, learning, and evolving the dietetics space to include eating disorder support, weight-inclusive nutrition care, and further healing of food and body dysfunction through a whole-person nutrition therapy approach.
She is the owner of MAK Nutrition Services, LLC based in Phoenix, AZ, providing outpatient nutrition therapy all over the country, for all food struggles, centering mental health, and holistic care. Megan has worked at all levels of care, developed numerous treatment programs, and provides advisory services to treatment centers’ nutrition and culinary programs around the country. A Certified Eating Disorder Dietitian and Approved Supervisor through the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp) since 2014; providing supervision services is a highlight in her week!
Megan is an Associate Teaching Professor at Arizona State University, teaching management, leadership, professional preparation, and nutrition undergraduate courses along with a graduate eating disorders and substance use disorder course which she developed. The greatest highlight of teaching is the recognition from students, nominated for Arizona State University’s, College of Health Solutions, Teacher of the Year in 2019 and 2022, and 2023.
She is currently serving on the Weight-Inclusive Toolkit Committee, the first ACEND approved curriculum to be included in future DPD programs. Co-author of the Revised 2020 Eating Disorder Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Practice (published), Megan has served in past leadership roles with the Behavioral Health Nutrition (BHN) DPG and continues to volunteer with the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians (IFEDD).
She is the owner of MAK Nutrition Services, LLC based in Phoenix, AZ, providing outpatient nutrition therapy all over the country, for all food struggles, centering mental health, and holistic care. Megan has worked at all levels of care, developed numerous treatment programs, and provides advisory services to treatment centers’ nutrition and culinary programs around the country. A Certified Eating Disorder Dietitian and Approved Supervisor through the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp) since 2014; providing supervision services is a highlight in her week!
Megan is an Associate Teaching Professor at Arizona State University, teaching management, leadership, professional preparation, and nutrition undergraduate courses along with a graduate eating disorders and substance use disorder course which she developed. The greatest highlight of teaching is the recognition from students, nominated for Arizona State University’s, College of Health Solutions, Teacher of the Year in 2019 and 2022, and 2023.
She is currently serving on the Weight-Inclusive Toolkit Committee, the first ACEND approved curriculum to be included in future DPD programs. Co-author of the Revised 2020 Eating Disorder Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Practice (published), Megan has served in past leadership roles with the Behavioral Health Nutrition (BHN) DPG and continues to volunteer with the International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians (IFEDD).
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Lesley Williams, MD
Eating Disorder Specialist
Dr. Williams is a board-certified Family Medicine physician with an expertise in eating disorders and women’s health issues. She currently serves as a Senior Associate Consultant in the Department of Family Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Arizona. Dr. Williams has lectured to national and international audiences regarding eating disorders and related topics. She currently serves as a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders’ Executive Board of Directors. Dr. Williams has a passion for eating disorder prevention and education. In addition to her work at Mayo Clinic, she serves as a subject matter expert consultant for the National Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (NCEED). Dr. Williams appreciates all opportunities to improve health equity by providing training to healthcare providers across the globe with the tools they can use to adequately prevent, detect, monitor, and manage disordered eating.
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Lisa Radzak
Executive Director, WithAll
As Executive Director, Lisa leads With All’s strategic growth as a sustainable social enterprise dedicated to the prevention of and healing from eating disorders.
Lisa has more than 20 years of experience in public affairs, community relations, and law, and nearly 15 years of experience in non-profit leadership, most recently at Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media. She is a graduate of Mitchell Hamline School of Law, a member of the Minnesota Bar, and a Minnesota Supreme Court appointee to Minnesota’s Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board. She volunteers with her daughter’s school and with youth sports.
Lisa does this work because she knows eating disorders are not a choice; they are deadly, and they are everywhere. She also knows kids are not born with harmful thoughts and actions around food or their bodies, and it’s our job as adults to keep it this way so young people can focus their precious brains and time on things that matter.
Lisa finds laughter, all children, and the numerous variations of sparkling water to be delightful.
Lisa has more than 20 years of experience in public affairs, community relations, and law, and nearly 15 years of experience in non-profit leadership, most recently at Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media. She is a graduate of Mitchell Hamline School of Law, a member of the Minnesota Bar, and a Minnesota Supreme Court appointee to Minnesota’s Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board. She volunteers with her daughter’s school and with youth sports.
Lisa does this work because she knows eating disorders are not a choice; they are deadly, and they are everywhere. She also knows kids are not born with harmful thoughts and actions around food or their bodies, and it’s our job as adults to keep it this way so young people can focus their precious brains and time on things that matter.
Lisa finds laughter, all children, and the numerous variations of sparkling water to be delightful.
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Denise Hamburger
Executive Director, Be Real USA
Denise Hamburger, JD, is the founder and executive director of BE REAL USA, a nonprofit that envisions a world where each and every student can grow up with a healthy relationship to food and their body. In 2017, Denise created a professional development workshop for teachers called Body Confident Schools and has delivered this training to over 5000 educators around the world. Among over 100 conference, keynote, and school presentations, Denise has presented at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to the National Association of School Psychologists; at the Center for Disease Control to their Healthy Schools Division; at the United States Department of Agriculture to their Food and Nutrition Services Group; at the Society for Public Health Education’s Advocacy Summit; and to Amazon’s Body Positive Peers Employee Resource Group.
Denise co-developed and co-piloted Be Real’s BodyKind high school, body image curriculum with a team of international body image academics, psychologists and teachers. Denise is an Anti-bias, Antiracist (ABAR) certified curriculum writer. BodyKind is the first body image curriculum developed for all students. It includes lived body image experiences of people of different races, ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, physical and mental abilities, and body sizes.
She has a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and was an environmental attorney in her first career. She co-wrote the legal treatise Pollution in the United Kingdom. She has spent the last 25 years involved in education nonprofits, including Chicago’s After School Matters.
Denise co-developed and co-piloted Be Real’s BodyKind high school, body image curriculum with a team of international body image academics, psychologists and teachers. Denise is an Anti-bias, Antiracist (ABAR) certified curriculum writer. BodyKind is the first body image curriculum developed for all students. It includes lived body image experiences of people of different races, ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, physical and mental abilities, and body sizes.
She has a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and was an environmental attorney in her first career. She co-wrote the legal treatise Pollution in the United Kingdom. She has spent the last 25 years involved in education nonprofits, including Chicago’s After School Matters.
