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Trauma Talk Thursdays Episode 23
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Marta Miranda-Straub (she/her/ella) is an Afro-Caribbean
Latinx Queer woman who has dedicated her life to working
towards building equity, inclusion, and creating sustainable
systems change. Her leadership, scholarship, and activism
have focused on advancing social and economic justice for
marginalized individuals, families and communities. Her
clinical expertise is in mental health, trauma/resilience and
addiction/recovery. She lives, works, and writes at the
intersection of multiple identities, including place, ethnicity, race, genders, and
sexualities, consistently applying an intersectional feminist lens to all her endeavors.
Marta is the former Commissioner of Social Services for the Department of Community
Based Services for the state of KY. She brings over 45 years of expertise in
organizational and clinical social work practice. Throughout her distinguished career,
she has excelled in various roles including tenured professor, department chair, social
researcher, executive leader, fund development professional, psychotherapist,
entrepreneur, community organizer, advocate, activist, coach, trainer, facilitator, and
public speaker.
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