Tigress Osborn Joins NAAFA Board of Directors

FOSTER CITY, Calif. - April 16, 2015 - PRLog -- The NAAFA Board of Directors is proud to announce the appointment of NAAFA member Tigress Osborn, MFA, to the Board as Director of Social Media. Tigress has worked closely with NAAFA in the past, organizing and emceeing fashion shows in the San Francisco Bay Area and Las Vegas.  Ms. Osborn founded Full Figure Entertainment in 2008 and continues to organize and promote full figure fashion shows, nightlife events, size-positive fitness opportunities and body awareness arts activities.

As Director of Social Media, Tigress will be responsible for managing NAAFA's presence on numerous popular and emerging social media platforms.  Additionally,she will serve as spokesperson for the organization and represent the organization in the community, building bridges between NAAFA, the social community and the fashion industries. Her Masters in Creative Writing and experience with design and distribution of web-based promotional materials is an added bonus.

Ms. Osborn received her Bachelor of Arts degree in African American Studies from Smith College. Her Masters of English degree with a concentration on Creative Non-Fiction Writing was awarded by Mills College. As Director of Diversity at The College Preparatory School in Oakland, CA, Tigress designed and implemented the school’s first diversity awareness-raising curriculum. She advised student organizations relating to race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and gender. She is currently the Reservations and Marketing Specialist at AsiaSF Cabaret in San Francisco, CA.

Please join us in extending a great big NAAFA welcome to Tigress as she assumes her new responsibilities in our community.

Founded in 1969, NAAFA is a non-profit human rights organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for fat people. NAAFA works to eliminate discrimination based on body size and provide fat people with the tools for self-empowerment through public education, advocacy, and member support.

On the web:  http://www.naafa.org