
Eating disorder care that works, built by people who’ve been there.
Eating disorders affect people of all identities and backgrounds — yet up to 90% won't get care. We started Arise to challenge assumptions around eating disorders and expand access to inclusive, effective care.
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Listen to lead
We’re not going to have all the answers. To effectively serve every person’s healing journey, we must start by humbly listening to and elevating voices from marginalized communities.
All bodies have value
We’re here for people of any age, race, size, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, and background, because everyone deserves to be understood, respected, and supported.
We’re all human
Being human means that we celebrate together and support each other through the low points. We give each other the space to rise and fall and rise again.
We started Arise because we've been there, too.
Our co-founders, Joan Zhang and Amanda D'Ambra, each had their own struggles with eating disorders and mental health, experiencing firsthand the harm it caused in their lives — and the power of community and connection in their own healing.
They came together with shared conviction that respectful, inclusive care should be available to people who need it — whatever they look like and wherever they come from.
With input and support from an incredible group of care and community advisors, they started Arise to change the conversation around eating disorders — and bring people a new kind of care that puts them at the center.


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A safe space to get real about healing through an eating disorder.
Community +Â clinical for better outcomes
We know that peer support and connecting to people with shared experiences is critical to healing from eating disorders — so that's part of our model from the start.
Person-centered care
Every person's voice matters — and no two experiences are exactly the same. We listen and learn from our members, working together on goals and a care plan that put them at the center.
Ongoing support for
long-term healing
Eating disorder recovery isn't linear, and healing takes time. As we move with folks out of active clinical care, they continue to have ongoing support as a part of our community.

Our leaders and advisors
We've brought together leaders and experts in community-based and clinical care for eating disorders and mental health to collectively build Arise to best support folks.


Joan Zhang
Chief Product Officer & Cofounder
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Identifies as an AAPI woman and child of immigrants
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Erikka Dzirasa, MD, MPH, DFAACAP
Chief Medical Officer
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Identifies as a Black Cisgender woman
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Dr. Jennifer Wang-Hall, Ph.D.
Advisor
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Identifies as a cisgender, mixed race, queer, invisibly disabled person
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Whitney Trotter, MS, RDN/LD, RN, RYT
Advisor
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Identifies as a Black Biracial Woman of color
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Marcella Raimondo, PhD, MPH
Advisor‍
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Identifies as a queer, cisgender, woman of color, polyamorous
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