Freelance Journalist
Brooklyn, New York
Topic: A multimedia, multi-platform investigative project on pre-teen anorexia nervosa.
Published Work:
On the final day of Women's History Month, let' s take a moment to remember Miss A, the first woman medically diagnosed with anorexia, and the pioneering doctor who used her case to challenge the era's prevailing presumption that eating disorders were simply a mark of an hysterical woman.
Maria Bruno knew something was really wrong when she put her newborn son, Nicolas, down for a nap and then was too afraid to pick him up. "I was experiencing anger and rage, and I had suicidal thoughts," she says.
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