Edith Bernier is an accomplished public speaker and panelist. To this day, she has crossed path with over 5000 people in over 70 events! She was also interviewed numerous times on the TV and the radio and participated to many podcasts.
2025
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2024
- Participation to episodes 10-Valoriser la diversité corporelle : tout le monde peut y contribuer! and 13-La grossophobie, ça suffit : comment devenue un·e bon·ne allié·e of the Au-delà du miroir : réflexions sur l’image corporelle podcast by ÉquiLibre
- Guest on the podcast Leader Talks with Anne-Marie Pham by the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion
2023
- Guest presenter for the Symposium Grossophobie et image corporelle : S’informer pour mieux intervenir organized by the Table québécoise sur la saine alimentation
- Guest debater on the TV show Les Débatteurs on NOOVO on the topic “Should parent discussion weight with their children?”
- Recording of the audiobook version of Grandir sans grossophobie
- Participation to episodes 1 and 2-Faut-il être mince pour être en santé? of the Au-delà du miroir : réflexions sur l’image corporelle podcast by ÉquiLibre
- Invited book signing author at the Salon du livre de Montréal
2022
- Panelist for the panel Suis-je biaisé? (Am I biased?) of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Summit, organized by Infopresse
- Host and moderator of a roundtable about Fat-Phobia in the 2SLGBTQ+ communities for Quebec City’s Pride
- Co-host of La face cachée de la discrimination : comprendre la grossophobie organized by the Quebec’s Division of the Canadian Bar Association
- Panelist for the 89th ACFAS event Les enjeux de diversité dans la téléréalité
2021
- Participated to the TV show Marie-Claude on the topic of weight and body image
- Guest speaker for courses at the Kinesiology Master (Université de Montréal) and the Law Bachelor (Université de Sherbrooke)
- Speaker of the Couleurs du monde month at François-Williams high school
- Contributed and took part to the creation and filming of the Place à la diversité corporelle! by the non-profit ÉquiLibre
- Guest speaker on Fat-Phobia for the Women Committee of the Conseil central de Montréal métropolitain of the CSN union
- Panelist for the Grossophobie et médias sociaux event at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal
- Panelist at a round table on body diversity for the Salon du livre of Edmundston
- Presenter of Faire la lumière sur la grossophobie for the Status of Women & Family Committee of the Loto-Quebec’s Workers Union, Quebec’s Government Professional Union, Condition féminine Baie-James and a group of Quebec’s nutritionists
- Contributor/expert interviewed for numerous academic works
2020
- Presenter of the webinar Grossophobie, confinement & cie » for Arrimage
- Guest on the TV Show « Ça ne se demande pas… à des personnes grosses » (AMI-télé)
- Guest Author at the Salon du livre de Montréal
2019
- Presenter of Weight Stigma in the Workplace, a public speaking on identifiying and dismantling weight and size discrimination in work environments
- Panelist for Bière & conférence : la grossophobie, comment nous affecte-t-elle?, an Arrimage event
- Speaker of the Couleurs du monde month at François-Williams high school
- Speaker for the Derrière l’influence | Stories for change! event by Oxfam-Québec for the Amplify Youth Voices project
- Creator and host of the workshop Reconnaître et éviter la grossophobie for the 40th anniversary event of the Regroupement Naissance Renaissance (RNR)
- Guest Exhibitor at the Foire de l’Innovation sociale organized by CHNGR MTL and Inclusion Jeunesse
- Board Member for the feminist bookstore l’Euguélionne
- Expert contributor to university research work projects
(Photo : Karin Araujo Flores)
2018
- Participant to a news feature on plus-size web personalities for ICI Radio-Canada Information
- Guest to discuss the pros and cons of being different when fat for an episode of Club Mel (KOTV-Canal Vie)
- Expert Presenter in the Experts Zone of the Montreal International Travel & Tourism Show
- Guest Speaker for the workshop Le bien-être, beaucoup plus qu’une question de poids!
2016
- Presenter and Guest Speaker of Small luggage – Big Changes! at the Montreal+ Fashion Week