Daria Burke is an American memoirist, speaker and award-winning business executive. A marketer by trade and a seeker at heart, Daria is a storyteller and sense-maker, weaving together personal experience and the science of healing and transformation to explore new ways of understanding how we choose who we become. This passion led her to complete Dr. Tara Swart’s Neuroscience for Business course at MIT and Positive Psychology and Well-Being at Stanford, taught by Dr. Daryn Reicherter, an international expert in trauma psychiatry.
Her debut memoir, OF MY OWN MAKING (Hachette) explores trauma, neuroplasticity, and Post-Traumatic Growth through the lens of her own healing journey. Kiese Laymon called it “as profound a book about the treacherous experience of befriending ourselves as I’ve read this decade.” Part memoir, part methodology, OF MY OWN MAKING blends personal narrative with scientific insight, Daria inspires readers to reimagine the narratives that define their lives.
About the Author: As a Chief Marketing Officer, Daria was named a 2020 AdAge Woman to Watch and 2021 She Runs It Game Changer. Her creativity and leadership have been recognized by Women’s Wear Daily, AdWeek, Forbes, Vogue, Teen Vogue, the CFDA, Town & Country, the Cut, NYLON Magazine, and more. She has been a guest on NPR’s Fresh Air and Slate’s Dear Prudence podcasts, and her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post and Black Enterprise and on MSNBC, where she appeared on The Melissa Harris-Perry Show. A distinguished alumni of NYU Stern School of Business (MBA) and the University of Michigan (BA), Daria was born in Detroit and now calls Los Angeles and East Hampton home.
Held in the Baldwin Room.
