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Darian (she/they) is a black, queer woman, a dreamer, a lover of learning, and a social justice advocate. In 2017, she graduated with a B.A. in Sociology with a minor in African American Diaspora studies and in 2021 obtained a Masters in Social Work with a concentration in Community, Management, and Policy Practice.
From her experience in mental health and social work, she has garnered skills in group facilitation, conflict resolution, empathy, and active listening. As someone who very much enjoys macro practice, she is also skilled in qualitative and quantitative research and analysis, liberatory design approaches, and program management. From her own lived experience as a Black, queer woman, she is passionate about using a multidisciplinary, equity-centered approach in order to solve problems of those in marginalized Communities. Since childhood, they have always been a natural-born daydreamer with a strong tendency to lucid dream at night. She is often imagining new worlds in her mind, or being immersed in the magical and fantastical worlds created by someone else. Today she realizes that dreams have always been her superpower and as an adult, finds herself inspired by the field of afrofuturism. Afrofuturists dare to reimagine our world without the existing power structures that constrain marginalized communities. She believes that it is imperative now more than ever to begin to dream of and conceptualize what we want our collective future to look like and how we can begin to design it with intentionality, centering empathy, equity, and justice. In their spare time Darian loves to sing karaoke, dance, paint, do yoga, and attend board game nights. She encourages those around her to prioritize resting, healing, dreaming, and creating, as she understands how much it has transformed her own life. |