Lesleigh Owen

Lesleigh Owen recently earned her PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her academic research and teaching interests revolve around social identities and inequalities, media, and cultural narratives of diverse body types. Lesleigh is also a published poet; poetry aficionados and/or members of the fat pride communities can find more of her poetry in the 2009 anthology Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets’ Society. Lesleigh is a social activist who spends her free time fighting for human and animal rights.