Online Panel
What Does Higher Education Need to Know About Eating Disorders?
A conversation for higher education professionals on recognizing eating disorders, supporting students, and building more compassionate learning environments.
Join us on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at 10:00 – 11:00 AM CST.
Join Lisa Radzak, JD (Executive Director of WithAll), Dr Jillian Lampert, PhD, RD, LD, MPH, FAED (President and Co-Founder of REDC and WithAll Board Member), Kellie Giordano (PhD Candidate at Boston University and researcher at the LINK Lab for Disordered Eating and Sexual Health at Northeastern University), and Doyle Calhoun, , PhD (University of Cambridge and WithAll Board Member) for a conversation on what people working in higher education need to understand about eating disorders.
The free discussion will explore how eating disorders affect students’ well-being, academic life, and sense of belonging on campus, while addressing questions of recognition, support, and institutional responsibility.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of the challenges students face, along with practical strategies for creating more informed and compassionate educational environments.
Join us on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at 10:00 – 11:00 AM CST.
Panelists
Lisa Radzak
Executive Director of WithAll
Jillian Lampert
Vice President of Strategy and Public Affairs for The Emily Program & Executive Director of The Emily Program Foundation
Doyle Calhoun
University Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Francophone Studies at the University of Cambridge
Dr Doyle Calhoun is University Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Francophone Studies at the University of Cambridge. He teaches and researches the literatures and cinemas of West Africa and the Caribbean. He is the author of The Suicide Archive (2024), co-editor of Senegalese Transmediations (2025) and The Essential Senghor (2026), and serves on the Board of Directors of WithAll.
Kellie Giordano
PhD candidate in French Literature at Boston University
Kellie Giordano is a PhD candidate in French Literature at Boston University. Her dissertation, “Hunger Pains: Emptiness and Disordered Eating in Nineteenth-Century French Literature,” examines how self-starvation and bodily control function as forms of embodied discourse shaped by gendered expectations, medical narratives, and cultural ideals of perfection. She is also a researcher in Northeastern’s Link Lab for Disordered Eating, as well as the community engagement intern at ANAD. Kellie’s work bridges literary scholarship and contemporary mental health discourse, contributing a medical humanities perspective on how historical narratives continue to shape modern understandings of eating disorders.
This conversation is overdue.
Eating disorders are showing up on campuses every day, often unrecognized. Join the free panel on June 17 to get the clarity and tools to actually do something about it.