Alexandra Miles is a Washington, D.C., based producer, actor, and non-profit founder with a focus on mental health impact. Alexandra earned degrees in Business and Fine Arts from Boston University and SCAD before producing the short film ‘Project Blackbird’. She then founded the related non-profit of the same name that provides mental health awareness and access to resources through their touring program. This program tours high school and college campuses and pairs a screening with athletes, actors, and other public figure guest panelists sharing their lived experience, then connecting these audiences with free therapy and other mental health resources.

Show Notes

• We discussed The Rep Project's #AllBodies Report, representations of fat women and girls in Hollywood
• We also discussed the article "More Realistic Physical Representations in Media Will Support Youth Mental Health", written by Vicki Harrison, MSW, and Adrianna Ruggiero, posted on UCLA's Center for Scholars & Storytellers
• We discussed diet culture. You can find out more about that here
• We also discussed the fat acceptance movement. You can find out more about that here
• We talked about the gamification concept and how that might apply to this topic. We mentioned the self-care app Finch, and I brought up author/public speaker Jane McGonigal. You can see her TED Talks here
• In the recommendations section, Alexandra mentioned ERC's Pathlight conference, Psychology Today, and NAMI
• There's also a list of recommendations on the Project Blackbird website
• We partnered with Project Blackbird for the webinar "Project Blackbird: How to Support and Recognize Eating Disorder Behaviors"