Margo Maine, Ph.D. is a psychologist with more than 25 years experience treating eating disorders and body image issues. In her West Hartford, Connecticut practice, she treats women of all ages, shapes, sizes, cultures, races, and ethnicities with a broad range of eating disorders and body image obsessions. A lecturer, consultant and researcher, Dr. Maine is Assistant Clinical Professor in the University of Connecticut’s Department of Psychiatry, author of Body Wars: Making Peace with Women's Bodies (Carlsbad, Cal.: Gurze Books, 2000) and. Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters and the Pursuit of Thinness. (Carlsbad, Cal.: Gurze Books, 2004) and was the long-time director of the Eating Disorder Program at the Institute for Living at Hartford Hospital. She is a founder of the National Eating Disorders Association and the Academy of Eating Disorders, a trustee of Dads and Daughters and The Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy and Action, and a senior editor of Eating Disorders; The Journal of Treatment and Prevention. Dr. Maine speaks widely on eating disorders and related issues in women’s health, including presentations to conferences of the American Psychological Association, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, American Women in Psychology, International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals, National Institute for the Advancement of Behavioral Medicine, and the National Eating Disorders Association. She has served as a consultant to numerous public awareness efforts, including the award-winning film Wasting Away.

Journalist and activist Joe Kelly is the father of two adult daughters, Publisher of the international newsletter Daughters: For Parents of Girls, President of the national advocacy nonprofit Dads & Daughters, co-founder of the international, award-winning and girl-edited New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams, and former regional News Director for Minnesota Public Radio.

Kelly is author of Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Support and Understand Your Daughter (Broadway Books, 2003), The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Being an Expectant Father (Alpha, 2004), The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Being a New Father (Alpha, 2004) and Clean: A New Generation in Recovery Speaks Out, with Chris Beckman (Hazelden, 2005). Kelly won the 2004 Eating Disorders Coalition national action award for his leadership in mobilizing fathers in advocacy to counter the socio-cultural messages contributing to body image distress and to eating disorders. He also won Father of the Year awards from the Women’s Sports Foundation and iParenting.com, as well as Parenting magazine’s 1995 Parenting Achievement Award and the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Feminist of the Year Award. Kelly has served on the Board of the National Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy and Action and the national Coalition for Commercial Free Childhood. A frequent speaker and columnist, his work has been widely covered in national media, including NBC’s Today Show, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, CBS’s Early Show, MSNBC, Lifetime, Fox News Channel, BBC, and Voice of America, as well as in Time, People, The New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today.

In addition to their professional interest in the topic, both Dr. Maine and Mr. Kelly have adult friends and colleagues who struggle with body image despair – including some who have died from eating disorders.

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