KIRSTEN HAGLUND Müller-Daubermann
As a Communications Consultant and Digital Media Strategist, Kirsten works with various organizations in the U.S. and Europe to develop quality content, train staff in communication techniques, and expand meaningful, authentic audience engagement that positively impacts people’s lives. She serves as Global Business Development & Digital Media Director for Eating Disorder Hope, Community Relations Specialist for Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, individual Recovery Coach and Business Development Consultant for WeRise Solutions, and Coach at Spark Cycle.
Now residing in Zürich, Switzerland, she spent 10 years previously in New York City, working as a political analyst and host appearing daily across cable news networks, including Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC and CNN, and hosted "The Sonder Podcast" on Faithwire.Com, featuring interviews with thought leaders in politics, faith, mental health and culture. Her Op-Eds have appeared in the New York Daily News, Forbes.com, The Huffington Post and in industry journals.
She is also the Founder of the Kirsten Haglund Foundation, which provides financial assistance to families battling eating disorders and served as Miss America 2008.
During her year with the Miss America Organization, she served as Goodwill Ambassador for the Children’s Miracle Network, appeared as one of SHAPE magazine's "Women Who SHAPE'd the World in 2008," and was a tireless advocate for increased awareness of eating disorders as a public health priority, having overcome a battle with anorexia as a young ballet dancer.
On behalf of this cause, she has made guest speaking appearances at the United Nations, Harvard University, the National Press Club in Washington D.C., and for the United States Congress while lobbying with the Eating Disorders Coalition for Mental Health Parity, among many others.
Kirsten studied musical theatre performance at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), and graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in Political Science. She married Amadeus Müller-Daubermann in 2019 and together they raise Elsa, the happiest toy poodle in Zürich.
KIRSTEN IN THE COMMUNITY
Kirsten regularly serves as a keynote speaker and host for various non-profit and faith—based organizations, and in that role, travels across the globe to speak at universities, NGO’s, churches, for women's groups, athletes and artists, and national conferences on women's empowerment, eating disorders, and consumer advocacy related to the beauty and diet industries. She is also a proud Ambassador for the National Eating Disorders Association.
Kirsten believes in the power of community engagement and giving back, and so remains active in volunteering with One Hundred Days, an organization based in Atlanta that is building Rwanda’s first children’s hospital, and creating small business initiatives in the Kigali community. Kirsten has also served as Honorary Co-Chair for the Not For Sale Gala for the past two years, an organization with combats global human trafficking.
THE KIRSTEN HAGLUND
FOUNDATION
The mission of the Kirsten Haglund Foundation (KHF) is to provide hope, networking and financial aid to those seeking treatment and freedom from eating disorders.
In February of 2009, Kirsten founded The Kirsten Haglund Foundation and serves as it’s current President. The mission of the Foundation is to fundraise to provide treatment scholarships to assist families and individuals battling eating disorders.
The Foundation has worked in collaboration with treatment centers across the country to award more than 100 scholarships for varying levels of care including online support programs.
To learn more about the work of the Foundation, to donate, or get involved, please visit www.kirstenhaglund.org.