Experience

Operation Restoration

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Housing

  • Oct 2018 - Present



Dolfinette V Martin LLC

• United States

• Consultant

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  Dolfinette is a Motivational Speaker, Reentry Advocate, Directly Impacted Activist, who works tirelessly for the civil and human rights of directly impacted women and girls. She often feels that their voices are left out of conversations of incarceration and thus decisions are made without their input. Women and girls journey to prison starts the day the trauma is inflicted and society needs to know that. No woman or girls has ever woke up and said I want to go to prison. As a woman who has spent 12 years in prison and released with no basic resources to ensure she at least had her dignity, she has dedicated her life to speaking about the ills that women and girls carry along their journey to and through incarceration. Show less



VOICE OF THE EXPERIENCED

• Statewide Organizer

  • Jun 2016 - Oct 2018



Vera Institute of Justice

• United States
• Government Administration
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Administrative Assistant

  • Apr 2013 - Jun 2016

  Dolfinette worked at VIJ pretrial services demo project based in New Orleans. She came to this work as a formerly incarcerated woman with the desire to have more and the passion to access it. As an intern she began to gain knowledge and brought lived experience to the table in which VIJ was creating. As the Administrative Assistant, Dolfinette, at times, stepped into the role of Supervision Specialist, Director, janitor and more. She did not mind learning every aspect of the project. This caused VIJ to bring her on as an employee and from there she soared. During her time at VIJ Dolfinette organized around HANO criminal background check policies with other grass root organizers and after successfully getting those policies changed Dolfinette was nominated to be a the Tenant that sit on the three panel board who conducts the background checks. Dolfinette also graduated from DCC while working full time at the company. She eventually left VIJ as her passion grew stronger and she wanted to be in the trenches of the work and left to work with and perform grass roots organizing. Show less