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Welcome to Carla Rice's
Website
Here you will find resources on Dr. Rice ranging from her biography to how to book her for consulting or speaking.
Career Shapshot
Dr. Rice is a global consultant on women's body image issues. She
has over 20 years experience as a clinician, project director,
researcher, and media consultant on body image and eating problems.
She is a consultant on the Dove "Campaign for Real Beauty," featuring the
"Dove Girls" and the "Dove Real Beauty Photo Exhibit".
She
has been quoted on CBC TV and radio, as well as The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star,
and 70 other newspapers and magazines from around the world.
In
1993 she founded the Body Image Project at
Women's College Hospital,
creating a unique therapeutic approach for women with eating disorder
and body image concerns. She is former project director of the National
Eating Disorder Information Centre and national organizer of Eating
Disorder Awareness Week.
She has worked with the Elementary Teacher's Federation of Ontario to
change the curriculum for elementary schools in Canada. While working
with girls and young women at the Toronto Board of Education, she
developed the Embodying Equity Project, an innovative approach designed to prevent body image problems through changing school cultures. In
partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Health, she also authored the popular resource Promoting Healthy Body Image: A Guide for Program
Planners.
Her current
research and community work involves using creative, arts-based
approaches to explore diverse women's images and narratives of body and
identity across their life-spans. For example, through combining
narrative with art-making methods, women with disabilities and
differences are encouraged to use to their creative capacities to envision new meanings of difference and disability.
She received her Ph.D. from York University, winning an award for her
thesis, Becoming Women a collection of narratives of diverse women
describing how they came to be in their bodies. This qualitative
research project is thought to fill a much needed gap, providing
narratives about women's body image and identity formation.
Dr.
Rice is available to conduct lectures and workshops, and to consult
with individuals and organizations about
body image, food, and weight problems. She is interested in working
with your group to develop workshops and resources within her
areas of expertise that meet your group's specific needs.
Contact Information
Individuals and organizations interested in body image consulting or speaking can contact Dr. Carla Rice personally at:
carlarice@trentu.ca
or
carlarice@rogers.com
Toronto Office:
321 Wellesley Street East
Toronto, Ontario
M4X 1H2
Phone: 1 (416) 654-1272
Fax: 1 (416) 628-1667
Trent University Office:
Women's Studies Program
113S Eaton College
Trent University
1600 West Bank Drive
Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8
Phone: 1 (705) 748-1011, Ext 7088
Fax: 1 (705) 748-1130
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