Draft:Dr Ally Zlatar

Alexandria (Ally) Zlatar, PhD (Canadian: born 5 March 1997) is an artist and activist from Canada. She founded an art organization named The Starving Artist in 2017 to promote art advocacy for Eating Disorders in the UK, reaching more than 200,000 people. In 2019, she created 'The Starving Artist Fund' to help people from marginalized communities access Eating Disorder in-patient treatment programs. From there The Starving Artist has become a leading arts organisation globally.

In 2021, Zlatar was awarded the Diana Award, the Diana Legacy Award and in 2022 the King Hamad Award for SDGs for her accomplishments in art activism. She works with the public, the private, and the civic society to bring intersectional creative reform to help empower the artistic voice as a change-making tool.