Meet Our New Board Members!

 

Image description: There are three photographs laid out on a charcoal gray background with blue, yellow, and white shapes. From left to right, the photos are of Kat Redniss (she/her), Jae’Lynn Chaney (she/her), and Francisca Moreno (they/them). Above the photos is the text: “Meet Our New NAAFA Board Members for 2024”

By NAAFA Board of Directors

Our search for new members of the NAAFA Board of Directors started last fall and wrapped up in December with great results! Big fat thanks to all of our community who shared the search, nominated community members, and provided recommendations for candidates. We had up to three seats to fill, and we decided to fill all three. It was such a tough choice to finalize our three selections, because the applicant pool was one of the best, brightest, and most diverse we’ve ever seen. We are excited to welcome these three new leaders to the NAAFA Board of Directors. 

Jae’Lynn Chaney (she/her) is a content creator and entrepreneur from Washington. She is widely known for her unapologetic advocacy for fat people, especially via her petition to the FAA to make air travel accommodating for passengers of size. 

Francisca Moreno (they/them) is a local organizer and communications professional in Delaware. They are passionate about intersectional approaches to developing community leaders and honoring community voices. They’ve already been busy advocating for policy change in Delaware to outlaw size discrimination. 

Kat Redniss (she/her) is a development director and burlesque performer in Vermont. If she looks familiar to you, it’s because she co-hosts events for Drag Story Hour, including our own Virtual Fat Brunch Story Hour last summer. 

Learn more about our three new team members and catch up with our other board members and staff at naafa.org/boards. And stay tuned for opportunities to get to know more of our board members and volunteers via Tamra Talks, our Instagram Live series hosted by Social Media Director Tamra Dozier-Garland. Be sure you’re following us on Instagram @naafaofficial so you don’t miss those episodes!


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Tigress Osborn

Prior to being appointed the first Executive Director of NAAFA in over two decades, Tigress served as Board Chair and Director of Community Outreach. As leader of the most diverse board in NAAFA’s 54-year history, Tigress 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 AZ in 2019. Tigress is a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) consultant and educator whose clients have ranged from major tech companies to small non-profits. 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. Follow Tigress @iofthetigress on your favorite social media.

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