[1] She was the host of The Virgie Show on CBS Radio[2][3] and the podcast, Rebel Eaters Club (produced by Transmitter Media).

[8] She began the #LoseHateNotWeight campaign to highlight the impacts of diet culture and educate people about the importance of ending weight-based discrimination.

[14][15] She has been profiled in the New York Times[16] and the San Francisco Chronicle[17] and has appeared on NPR[18] and BBC Mundo.

[19] Tovar was also the host of the Webby Award-nominated podcast, Rebel Eaters Club, produced by Transmitter Media for three seasons.

[17][20] Tovar has received Yale's Poynter Fellowship in Journalism,[21] the Anne G. Locascio Memorial Scholarship from the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference,[22] the Inspire Award from Project HEAL,[23] and three individual artist commissions from the San Francisco Arts Commission.