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Dr. Darlyne Bailey is the Founder & Executive Director of Community Dialogues for Action, what she describes as her "dream come true of making connections guided by love." Recognized in 2017 by the National Association of Social Workers Foundation as an “NASW Social Work Pioneer," and an honored recipient of the 2021 NASW-PA “Phyllis Black Lifetime Achievement Award,” Darlyne remains committed to utilizing individual, organizational, and community-level knowledge and skills to co-create socially just multiculturally humble systems. In 2023, Darlyne was awarded one of the highest honors at Bryn Mawr College, the Faculty McPherson Award for Excellence. In 2024, Darlyne received the Career Achievement Award from the Association for Community Organization & Special Action (ACOSA), and was inducted into the Weatherhead School of Management inaugural Hall of Fame. 

Darlyne is actively engaged in participatory teaching and research, and serves on several local and national boards, including: the Wisconsin home of the Suzanne and Richard Pieper Family Foundation, the national Alliance of Leadership Fellows, and the New York-based Renaissance Center. She is also Chair Emeritus and member of the Board of Trustees of the online associate-degree granting Vocate Education Solutions in Tampa, FL, and Chairs the National Human Services Assembly in Washington, D.C. Additionally, Darlyne is editor-in-chief of the 30 year-old journal Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping. Initiated in 2013, for the past 13 years Darlyne has continued to co-lead (with Hunter College Social Work Professor Emerita Terry Mizrahi) the still national yet, as of January 2023, the 501(c)(3) “Special Commission to Advance Macro Social Work.” In 2018, the Special Commission partnered with the Council on Social Work Education to produce the first-ever Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Macro Social Work Practice. Darlyne served as lead co-editor-in-chief (with Dr. Mizrahi and a team of associate and consulting editors) of the Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work, the inaugural 3-volume and online publication of Oxford University Press and the National Association of Social Workers Press. Most recently, Darlyne co-authored -- with C. Boatwright, R. Rose, and W. Strongheart -- Moving Hearts: Leading Through the Sacred Wisdom of the Horse Called Nokota. This books weaves the voices of the people from the Lakota Nation with lessons learned from the Nokota horse, to offer wisdom in creating and leading healthy organizations and communities.

Sarah Spath is the Director of Programs for Community Dialogues for Action. Sarah has worked in a variety of educator roles at the college level, including teaching writing courses and running a peer tutoring program; and in a variety of direct service roles in the human services sector, including as a peer supporter and psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner. She served as Chair of the board of managers for the Ferns Peer-Run Respite, the first peer respite in southeastern Pennsylvania. Peer respite is a voluntary, nonclinical, residential space where individuals who feel overwhelmed by crisis or emotional distress can receive peer support during a short-term stay. Sarah is interested in how the power of dialogue and mutuality can promote healing both through one-on-one relationships and at the organizational and community level.