Dawn Nicole Martin
Dawn Nicole Martin was born in the town of St. Joseph on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. After graduating from high school, she immigrated to the United States. A graduate of Caldwell College, Dawn is presently pursuing her master’s degree at Villanova University.
She currently resides in suburban Maryland and enjoys her roles as mother, daughter, sister, friend, colleague, mentor, and confidante.
With over fifteen years of Human Resources and other professional services experience, Martin has a proven track record of results and achievement at every level of career responsibility. Martin’s work as a Human Resources consultant has made her an advocate for the humane and equitable treatment of everyone.
Her goal is to raise awareness, challenge discriminatory behavior, and bring attention to systems, institutions, structures, policies, and people who seek to “keep women in their place.” Martin helps women find their voices by forming partnerships, developing programs, and supporting initiatives to educate, motivate, inspire, and equip women with the necessary tools to not only make a difference but to be the difference. Known for her energetic, authentic, and collaborative leadership style as well her thought-provoking messages, Martin is on a mission to touch souls and transform the lives of women throughout the country.
When not fighting the good fight for the empowerment of women, Martin takes pleasure in gardening, enjoying nature in the woods and along the trails of her neighborhood, reading a good book, or watching a movie.
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She currently resides in suburban Maryland and enjoys her roles as mother, daughter, sister, friend, colleague, mentor, and confidante.
With over fifteen years of Human Resources and other professional services experience, Martin has a proven track record of results and achievement at every level of career responsibility. Martin’s work as a Human Resources consultant has made her an advocate for the humane and equitable treatment of everyone.
Her goal is to raise awareness, challenge discriminatory behavior, and bring attention to systems, institutions, structures, policies, and people who seek to “keep women in their place.” Martin helps women find their voices by forming partnerships, developing programs, and supporting initiatives to educate, motivate, inspire, and equip women with the necessary tools to not only make a difference but to be the difference. Known for her energetic, authentic, and collaborative leadership style as well her thought-provoking messages, Martin is on a mission to touch souls and transform the lives of women throughout the country.
When not fighting the good fight for the empowerment of women, Martin takes pleasure in gardening, enjoying nature in the woods and along the trails of her neighborhood, reading a good book, or watching a movie.
DawnNicoleMartin.com Twitter Facebook DawnNicoleMartin/blog
MisBehave: Speak Truth to Power
As a professional woman who had spent many years in the corporate workplace, I'd heard all the cautionary tales: how women would never be able to genuinely take a seat at the table with men; how strong women who wouldn't display proper subservience to their male superiors-or peers-would eventually find themselves locked out of meaningful opportunities; how women-especially black women-almost always faced the choice of "playing nice" and being seen as unimaginative drones or standing up for their principles and being labeled uncooperative bitches. I had apparently landed in the latter category, and that was the reason I was now out of a job.
Was I the first woman in history who had found herself in this situation? As these new stories began to find their way to me, I learned that I most definitely was not alone in my predicament. In fact, I stood in a long line of women who "acted out": who refused to be defined by the stereotypes assembled by their patriarchal societies; who decided that their own dreams were better and more worthwhile than the dreams the rest of the world told them to have; who broke the rules and violated expectations in order to shout to a world that refused to listen, "I matter more than you think I do, and nothing you can do to me can change that!"
"Much of what is characterized as female 'misbehavior' is a matter of voice-of a woman insisting she be heard: paid not only attention, but also the respect due a being as fully human and necessary as a man."
As I began a deeper examination into the stories of women who "misbehaved"-at least, according to the expectations of the surrounding society-I began to understand that what had happened to me was merely the tip of the iceberg of the type of mistreatment, misunderstanding, and outright hostility that women of all ethnicities have been exposed to since-well, since the beginning of time.
Even after the advances of the last few decades, women are still subjected to a type of scrutiny and cultural vetting that most men do not dream of and cannot understand. Reading the stories of women who have made a difference, who have overcome obstacles and shaken off societal shackles to pursue their dreams, has convinced me that despite the successes of the past, so much more remains to be done. And the doing-the striving, persisting, and succeeding-has to start with me. And with you.
This book is, at least in part, the call to a struggle. But it is a struggle that is ultimately worthwhile, ultimately uplifting, and ultimately indispensible. Listening to these stories of the brave, pioneering women who have gone before me has changed the way I see my experience. These stories have taken me on a journey of self-discovery and reevaluation...a journey that has resulted in the writing of this book. And now, in these pages, I want to invite you to take the journey, too.
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Was I the first woman in history who had found herself in this situation? As these new stories began to find their way to me, I learned that I most definitely was not alone in my predicament. In fact, I stood in a long line of women who "acted out": who refused to be defined by the stereotypes assembled by their patriarchal societies; who decided that their own dreams were better and more worthwhile than the dreams the rest of the world told them to have; who broke the rules and violated expectations in order to shout to a world that refused to listen, "I matter more than you think I do, and nothing you can do to me can change that!"
"Much of what is characterized as female 'misbehavior' is a matter of voice-of a woman insisting she be heard: paid not only attention, but also the respect due a being as fully human and necessary as a man."
As I began a deeper examination into the stories of women who "misbehaved"-at least, according to the expectations of the surrounding society-I began to understand that what had happened to me was merely the tip of the iceberg of the type of mistreatment, misunderstanding, and outright hostility that women of all ethnicities have been exposed to since-well, since the beginning of time.
Even after the advances of the last few decades, women are still subjected to a type of scrutiny and cultural vetting that most men do not dream of and cannot understand. Reading the stories of women who have made a difference, who have overcome obstacles and shaken off societal shackles to pursue their dreams, has convinced me that despite the successes of the past, so much more remains to be done. And the doing-the striving, persisting, and succeeding-has to start with me. And with you.
This book is, at least in part, the call to a struggle. But it is a struggle that is ultimately worthwhile, ultimately uplifting, and ultimately indispensible. Listening to these stories of the brave, pioneering women who have gone before me has changed the way I see my experience. These stories have taken me on a journey of self-discovery and reevaluation...a journey that has resulted in the writing of this book. And now, in these pages, I want to invite you to take the journey, too.
Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle at Amazon.com
Hardcover, Paperback at Barnes&Noble.com
InkWaterBooks.com
Download a sample of MisBehave: Speak Truth to Power
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