Dr. Dayanara “Dee” Marte is a first-generation taína Dominican immigrant dedicated to healing, trauma and social justice, and the upcoming author of her transformational memoir, Every Little Girl Has a Story. With over 25 years of experience, Dr. Dee is renowned for her extraordinary ability to identify the social, emotional, and spiritual impact that intergenerational violence, poverty and trauma have on women’s ability to love, live and lead. She works globally as a trusted healing justice advisor, coach and consultant for a wide array of institutions, businesses and community-based organizations working at the intersections of social justice and social service. Her work also includes designing personal and organizational training, facilitation and retreats supporting women and girls of color in leadership (executive directors, entrepreneurs, creatives, other healers, advocates, teachers, social workers and women in business) go through healing and transformational change processes from trauma, scarcity and deficit to healing, resiliency and sustainability.
She is committed to creating safe spaces of healing and empowerment for people who want to take their leadership to the next level where young and adult women, LGBT and communities of color can powerfully live into their future, birthing sustainable families and leading a new world.
Dr. Dee is a public health expert and alumnus of the Ivy League Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and she earned her post-graduate degree in Clinical Approaches to Addiction from New York University. Dr. Dee is also a recent graduate of the prestigious University of Southern California, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. She recently published “More Training Is Not the Answer for Survivors”: A Healing Justice Framework for Women of Color Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in Leadership in a special issue of the journal Genealogy.
