Full Name: Council on Size & Weight Discrimination

Founders: Bill Fabrey, Nancy Summers, Paula Dachis, Neil Dachis, Lynn McAfee

Website: http://www.cswd.org

Mailing Address:

Council on Size & Weight Discrimination

PO Box 305

Mt. Marion, NY 12456

Contact Phone: (845) 679-1209

Contact Fax: (845) 679-1206

Email: info@cswd.org

Membership fees: No membership fee, donations are welcome

Organizational Hierarchy:

Miriam Berg, President

William J. Fabrey, Director – Media Project

Paula M. Dachis, Director – Media Project

Lynn McAfee, Director – Medical Advocacy

Nancy Summer, Director – Fund raising

Neil Dachis, Esq., Director (unspecified)

Carrie Hemenway, Director – Employment Discrimination

Mission Statement:

The CSWD believes:

• All people, no matter what their weight, deserve equal treatment in the job market and on the job.
• All people, no matter what their weight, deserve competent and respectful treatment by health care professionals.
• Prejudice based on weight is no different from, and no better than, prejudice based on skin color, gender, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.
• The media’s portrayal of fat people is often inappropriately negative, and that the media promotes people’s fear of fat and obsession with thinness.
• Weight diversity is a positive goal. Our dream is a world in which a person’s life, health, well-being, and happiness is unrelated to that person’s weight.
• Happy, attractive, capable people come in all shapes and sizes.
• Each of us has the responsibility to stand up for ourselves and for people around us who may suffer weight discrimination.
• Sizism and weight bigotry will end when people of all sizes refuse to allow it to continue.

Organizational focus:

The CSWD was founded by several members of NAAFA including the founder, William Fabrey and includes past NAAFA president Nancy Summer. Whereas NAAFA seems to have a broad focus on Fat Acceptance, the CSWD is more focused on fighting the discrimination and prejudice that is associated with sizism.