About Daisy

Daisy identifies as a Bi-sexual, first generation Puerto Rican American woman and she speaks Spanish (more like “Spanglish”).  She was the first person to graduate college in her family and earned a Bachelor's degree in Social Science Education in 1990 from the University of Tampa.  She has a background both as an educator and as a counselor and earned a Master’s degree in Community Counseling from Fairfield University in 2000 and a Master’s degree in School Counseling from Southern Connecticut University in 2011. '“My greatest advocate when I sought to acquire a higher level of education was my single, Puerto Rican born and raised mother who accompanied me to my college registration and advocated for me to receive financial aid. My mom encouraged us to pursue a higher level of education and to serve others. My father died when I was 17 years old. At the time, he was working as a security guard. He always made sure that I had a ride to get to the library.”

Daisy’s experience utilizing and teaching action methods is vast and includes various settings such as urban public schools and the university graduate level. She has taught psychodrama methods to professionals working during war time, to mental health and other professionals and to lawyers at the Trial Lawyer's College.  She co-presented at the 81st Annual ASGPP Conference the workshop, "Step into the Shoes of the Teenager Using Sociodrama". She also presented at the 82nd Annual ASGPP Conference the workshop, “Trauma-Informed Celebration and Other Psychodramatic Justice Practices”. She is a proud member of the Sociatry and Social Justice Committee for the ASGPP and she co-leads the BIPOC affinity action groups and the Social Justice Forum.  Daisy also uses psychodrama and sociodrama to work with her clients at the “Women’s Freedom Program” and to empower them to bring about positive changes through the creation of new roles in their lives. She supports women in recovery to access the full range of their voices and entire selves. She also supports LGBTQIA+ youth utilizing psychodrama methods. She is the 2024 ASGPP recipient of the Sociatry and Social Justice award as a result of the collaboration, contributions and support from her healing and justice collective.

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Our Chief Executive Officer, Daisy, is a co-founder and a Director of the Theatre for Social Justice, a not-for-profit organization in Sarasota, Florida which provides access to social justice education and practices to the community through psychodrama and sociodrama methods, tools and techniques.  She became certified as a psychodramatist by the American Board of Examiners in September 2022. She will help participants and groups to warm up in their bodies first and to use enactment to share their stories in action (both as individuals and as a collective community). Then, Daisy facilitates the sharing stage of psychodrama and sociodrama in order to help participants and group members to feel positively connected to each other and to create new and adequate solutions.  Daisy discovered and fell in love with theatre in high school and began to train in psychodrama in 2002 when she was a young mother and she realized the healing potential of this method by using it in her own personal life.