Dawn Haney

Dawn Haney brings her passions for social justice, good non-profit management, and the dharma to her role as Director of Training & Development for BPF. During her three-year tenure as Executive Director of Sexual Assault Services Organization, a rape crisis center in Durango, Colorado, her proudest achievements included reaching ambitious fundraising goals to expand services to survivors and build a new community organizing program focused on building power in immigrant communities to fight sexual violence. She led the organization’s shift from a primarily white women’s agency to one that applied an anti-oppression lens to ending sexual violence, re-centering the work in the lives of people most marginalized in the community. She has consulted with a range of folks, from anti-violence advocates and circus freaks, to improv artists and fiscal policy geeks. She blogs about strengthening nonprofit roots, rooting for nonprofit success, and giving not so great nonprofits a root canal at Rooting Nonprofits.

Dawn's social justice work first brought her to the meditation cushion with a desire to be stronger and more resilient in her work to heal trauma and oppression. As an active sangha member of the Durango Dharma Center, she managed the first residential retreat for the center's Next Generation group for meditators in their 20s and 30s. It was on retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center with socially-engaged Buddhist teachers Joanna Macy, Donald Rothberg, and Lawrence Ellis that Dawn decided to move from Colorado to the Bay Area to better explore the intersection of social activism and Buddhism.

Email Dawn at dawn@bpf.org