Donna-Marie Winn, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, researcher, and strategist. As a clinician, she supports the mental health, academic achievement, and economic viability of emerging majority people and communities. She has developed numerous therapeutic interventions, tools, and games to meet people where they are and to provide support as they travel their own pathways to thriving. 

For over three decades, Donna-Marie has led complex research and evaluation projects. Her work has evolved over the years to focus on expanding and leveraging assets and shifting structures to increase equity and justice. To do this, she centers race, ethnicity, culture, class, and other contextual factors. 

Donna-Marie is a thought leader and strategist, having participated on numerous boards and committees, including the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s National Girls Study Group, Head Start’s National Center on Cultural and Linguistic Responsiveness, the White House’s Initiative on Educational Excellence on African Americans under the Obama Administration, the Communities for Just Schools Fund, the Beautiful Project, and Durham NC’s My Brother’s Keeper – Education Committee. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters and delivered over one hundred presentations throughout the United States, Ghana, Portugal, France, Italy, England, and Canada. Recently, she was named a 2019 BMe Vanguard Social Determinants of Health Fellow.

Donna-Marie earned her BA from Notre Dame, her MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her postdoctorate from Duke University. She founded KPLLC in 2011. A native New Orleanian, she resides with her family in North Carolina. 

Donna-Marie is a lover of sunrises and sunsets, particularly ones over mountain ranges or crystal blue waters.