Denise Hamburger
Denise Hamburger, J.D., is the founder and executive director of BE REAL USA, a nonprofit that envisions a world where each and every student can grow up with a healthy relationship to food and their body. In 2019, Denise created a professional development workshop for educators called Body Confident Schools and has delivered this training to over 1500 US teachers, coaches, administrators, and school mental health professionals. She spoke at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in 2020, and at the CDC in 2021. She has a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and was an environmental attorney in her first career. She co-wrote the legal treatise Pollution in the United Kingdom. She has spent the last 25 years involved in education nonprofits, including Chicago’s After School Matters.
