Glo V.
she/her
Credentials: Founder & Executive Director, Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP). Creator of the Eating Disorder Harm Reduction Community Circle and the Eating Disorder Harm Reduction Professional Membership. Speaker at Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, and the Decolonize Unconference.
About
I'm Glo V., founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP), a community-funded organization I started to fill a gap I lived through myself. NPP centers eating disorder harm reduction, body liberation, and anti-colonial education for communities that mainstream recovery spaces were never built for. My work pulls from Indigenous epistemologies, food sovereignty, decolonial scholarship, and the knowledge that already exists in our communities. I've trained and spoken at institutions including Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, and UCLA, and I offer consulting and trainings for providers and organizations working at the intersection of eating disorders, systemic harm, and community care. NPP runs through an online shop, Patreon, live events, and the Eating Disorder Harm Reduction Membership.
Services offered
Services
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Speaking topics, trainings & workshops
I offer trainings and presentations on eating disorders and settler colonialism; the Indigenous roots of harm reduction; anti-colonial approaches to eating disorder care; body liberation; intergenerational trauma and food relationships; mental health imperialism; harm reduction for disordered eating and weight loss; provider burnout and decolonial care; and religious trauma.
Focus areas & populations
Focus areas
Communities served
Identity & values
Values & commitments
Identities & communities
Lived experience
Practice & approach
I work through an anti-colonial harm reduction framework that I developed through NPP, alongside an intergenerational trauma lens.
What harm reduction means in practice
As someone who applies harm reduction on a daily basis, I understand it as a way of life that is deeply rooted in the survival, care, and resistance practices of Indigenous, Black, and communities of color. Harm reduction can never be neutral — its ethics are grounded in Indigenous worldviews and solidified by communities responding to violence, criminalization, neglect, and exclusion from colonial institutions. For me, harm reduction means meeting people where they are, honoring their autonomy and lived experience, and working to reduce harm while also addressing the structural conditions that produce it. It is both a practical approach to care and a political commitment to dignity, self-determination, and collective liberation.
Communities, movements & lineages that shaped this work
My understanding of harm reduction comes from Indigenous sovereignty movements, Chicana feminist thought, and the long tradition of community-based care that existed long before clinical systems claimed it.
Trainings, certifications & community lineages
My formation comes from community-based harm reduction movements, Indigenous healing traditions, DIY punx culture, and decolonial scholarship. Alongside that, my practice is rooted in living experience and ongoing engagement with community care.
Publications, media & written work
Mentioned in over 50 academic journals.