Joyce Dorado

Joyce Dorado, Ph.D., has dedicated her 30-year career to healing and social justice for trauma-impacted children, families, schools, youth-serving institutions, and communities. In 2008, she co-founded and became director of HEARTS (Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools), an award-winning program that promotes school success by collaborating with school systems to create more trauma-informed, safe, supportive, and equitable school cultures and climates that foster resilience, wellness, and social justice for everyone in a school community. 

Dr. Dorado is currently the Associate Dean for Community Partnerships and an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Social Welfare at University of California, Berkeley (UCB), as well as the Director of HEARTS. Prior to UCB, she served for 22 years in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of California, San Francisco - Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital as Clinical Professor, educator, clinical supervisor, and clinician. As a nationally recognized expert around trauma-informed, healing centered systems change, Dr. Dorado has served as a consultant, trainer, and thought leader around numerous initiatives, including serving as an appointed member of the California State Supreme Court Justice’s statewide steering committee for the Keeping Kids in School and Out of Courts initiative. She also served as the Lead Trauma-Informed Systems Curriculum Developer for Trauma Transformed, a center that advances trauma-informed, healing-centered, and anti-racist system change through community- and cross-system collaboration.