Author & Journalist Christine Yu Presents: Finding Your Place in Sport

Author & Journalist Christine Yu Presents: Finding Your Place in Sport

In this keynote, journalist and author Christine Yu explores the
evolving landscape of women in sport — celebrating how far women
athletes have come and shedding light on the systemic gaps that still
affect girls and women today. Drawing on her personal experiences, she
explores how culture and identity shapes belonging and what it means
to be active at all phases of life. Ultimately, this talk is a call
for girls and women to understand their own bodies, build community,
and show up as their whole selves — because when they do, they thrive.

Christine Yu is an award-winning journalist who writes about sports,
science, and health. Her interest in the intersection between sports
science and women athletes led her to her first book Up to Speed: The
Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes, which disentangles myth and
gender bias from real science in order to address the huge research
gap in sports science. Ultimately this is a book that is not just a
road map for women and girls but an examination of the systemic
injustices in sports and science that affect all people in the hope of
uncovering ways to make the system more equitable for everyone. She
lives in New York City with her family.

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