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Acknowledging the Get REAL! CSUN Community Get REAL! about Media and Body Image is a community service-learning partnership between the National Eating Disorders Association and The Office of Community Engagement at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Service learning is a teaching and learning strategy that emphasizes “learning by doing” – students apply what they learn beyond the classroom, collaborating with a community partner, to develop civic responsibility and empower themselves as citizens who actively participate in the world in which they live. Every semester for the past few years, more than 100 students enrolled in Women, Men and Media courses I teach in the Department of Journalism participate in the project. They learn digital and media literacy skills, study research about media and body image, and reflect on media’s influence on their self- image. They then apply what they learn to help themselves and their peers think critically about media’s role in cultivating an “ideal” body standard that contributes to a drive for thinness among women and for muscularity among men. The centerpiece of the project is the Get REAL! Digital Media Literacy Toolkit on the NEDA website. This social media-driven toolkit is also used by CSUN peer educators from Joint Advocates on Disordered Eating at University Counseling Services in their presentations to campus groups and classes across the disciplines. The toolkit would not have been created without the passion and dedication of all my students, especially the volunteer leaders who spearhead the project each semester. Special thanks to Jennifer Luxton who guided the original mission of the project and designed the toolkit, Karina Elias who created the social media, Shira Moskowitz who served as our resident expert and researcher, and the rest of the team who developed the activities: Edgar Barillas, Katie Barnett, Chardanay Crowder, Jasmine Edelin, Alaya McKinney, Natalie Palacios, Stefani Romagnoli, Josue Silva, and Therese Stoppiello. Their successors, Cicely Chisholm, Teja Foster, Melisa Fumbarg, Autumn Gomez, Kaitlin Nagao, Leilani Peltz, Michelle Tobbi, and Andreas Stoltz produced a PSA, and Meaghan Gallagher, Melanie Miulli, Nathan Rillo, and Sarah Angello developed a strategic media plan and press kit for the project. The students are truly amazing in what they accomplish each semester to make the toolkit a reality! Every project has an invisible support system and this one is no exception. Thank you to Joyce Burstein, Faculty Director of The Office of Community Engagement, who is an enthusiastic supporter of the project. Thanks also to Veronica Sullivan, Ph.D., psychologist at University Counseling Services, who served as our invaluable consultant about eating disorders. And thank you to Linda Bowen, Chair of the Department of Journalism, who has been a proponent of service learning and my projects. Last, and certainly not least, a triple thank you to Lynn Grefe, Susie Roman, and Maggi Flaherty for the opportunity to collaborate with NEDA and bring digital media literacy skills to the forefront of the body image discussion. For many years now, I have been privileged to teach a diverse body of students who have taught me as much as I have taught them. Service-learning opportunities like Get REAL! enrich their academic experience and inspire them to use the power of their voices to take social action that can make a difference in their lives and the emergent global digital society. Bobbie Eisenstock, Ph.D. Faculty Mentor, Get REAL! Project California State University, Northridge