Tigress Osborn
co-editor of Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation
Tigress Osborn, MFA, (she/her) is the executive director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). Founded in 1969 in the United States, NAAFA is the world’s oldest documented fat rights advocacy organization.
As leader of the most diverse board in NAAFA’s 54-year history, Tigress has championed an intersectional approach to fighting anti-fatness through education, advocacy, and support. Her work with NAAFA has been featured in USA Today, Huffington Post, and Newsweek, and heard on BBC AntiSocial and ABC News. Tigress also hosts and produces the NAAFA Webinar Series, which features a wide variety of activists, scholars, and artists from fat community.
Tigress founded Full Figure Entertainment in 2008 in Oakland, CA, and co-founded the PHX Fat Force in Arizona in 2019.
Tigress is a justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) consultant and educator whose clients have ranged from major tech companies to small nonprofits. She is a two-time women’s college graduate with a BA in Black studies from Smith College and an MFA in creative writing from Mills College.
Learn more about NAAFA at naafa.org. Follow Tigress @iofthetigress on your favorite social media.