Melanie Haiken 

Melanie Haiken is an award-winning journalist who has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, the BBC, CNN, AARP, Health magazine, MindSite News, Sierra magazine and The Washington Post, among others. She has a personal interest in this subject of eating disorders. “As the mother of a child who spent many years in treatment for anorexia and bulimia, I encountered these barriers myself. And in the parent support groups I attended, I shared the experiences of other families hit hard by the expense of treatment and the denials of insurance support.”