Andrea LaMarre

Andrea LaMarre is a writer, speaker, researcher, teacher, and filmmaker-in-training. She is currently a Research Associate at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, working on eating disorder early intervention and peer support research projects. She is also working with Re•Vision to develop a learning module for the Bodies in Translation online knowledge platform. Andrea recently moved back to Canada from Aotearoa New Zealand where she had been living and working as a lecturer in critical health psychology at Massey University (New Zealand) since 2019. She holds a PhD in Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph, where she studied eating disorder recovery from the perspectives of people in recovery and their supporters. Andrea has an MSc. in Family Relations and Human Development and a BA in Sociology. Following her PhD, she took up a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact at the University of Waterloo. She approaches her work from a social justice lens, thinking through issues like barriers to access to treatment for mental health concerns and ways of working at a systems level to increase funding and political will to help more people.

Andrea worked extensively with Project ReVision during her graduate studies, helping participants in workshops on wide ranging topics including disability and difference, mental health, and more make short, first-person films about their experiences. Andrea frequently writes for blogs and publications about mental health, eating disorders, and stigma, and speaks at community forums and conferences nationally and internationally. She firmly believes that art has the power to make social and individual change.