This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is the director the Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence (API Institute) at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), a national health policy organization dedicated to strengthening policies, programs, and research to improve the health and well-being of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Ms. Dabby directs the API Institute, a national resource center engaged in advocacy, research, policy, training, technical assistance provision and analyzing critical issues on violence against Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women.
Prior to APIAHF, Ms. Dabby was the Executive Director of Narika, a helpline for abused South Asian women; and worked at the Psychological Services Center for 17 years. Ms. Dabby has been in the domestic violence field over twenty-five years and along the way has acquired some expertise on violence against women in Asian communities; strategies for advocacy, community engagement and system change; the psychological effects of violence on women; trafficking; intimate homicide; child custody and mediation; battered mothers in the child welfare system; sexual violence and economic self-sufficiency for abused women. She writes, trains and presents extensively about these and many other issues.
She serves on the Advisory Committees of the American Bar Association's Commission on Domestic Violence; the Battered Women's Justice Project: Civil, Criminal and Defense Divisions; the Domestic Violence Mental Health Policy Initiative; and the Domestic Violence Department of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.
Ms. Dabby is interested in how culture and gender inform our approaches to effective advocacy. As an activist and a feminist, she is interested in how the movement's collective experience, knowledge and outrage can be applied to stop violence against women.
Ms. Dabby speaks Hindi, Gujerati, Marathi and French with varying degrees of fluency. Between Bombay and Berkeley, she has lived in London, Cambridge, Paris and Kathmandu.
