voice, expression, creativity. and vitality
voice, expression, creativity, and vitality
CHANGE THE STORy.
CHANGE THE ROOM.
the meaning we make from what we lived becomes the we lead from
story
KEYNOTE SPEAKER. STORY CONSULTANT. FOUNDER OF THE FEMALE VOICE PROJECT.
Narrator → Critic → Author
The Narrator tells you what happened.
The Critic TELLS YOU WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT YOU.
The Author decides what IT MEANS... AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
After years of working with stories, Christina began to see the same pattern again and again: what shapes us isn’t only what happened. It’s the meaning we made from it.
Christina’s work helps audiences move from being shaped by old narratives to consciously authoring how they speak, lead, and show up.
6 +
12 +
200 +
450 +
years training staff in story and speaking inside LAUSD
years as a storyteller and speaker
stories shaped for the stage
attendees gathered for CalMHSA funded story event Christina produced
Christina has built her life around the power of a story told well.
the storyteller
For years she believed the chapter of her life she was most ashamed of was the thing that disqualified her from ever having something to say.
Then she wrote her story down. She wrote the truth. And this writing became the one woman show, Dirty Me Divine. What Christina found in sharing her life experience is that the story she'd been hiding, was the one that could actually reach people.
We're all handed our own version of a knife that cuts. We can turn that knife inward or we can point it out and carve something beautiful. Christina teaches the latter.
She's lived her life around that discovery. Christina has spent the last 12 + years shaping stories, developing speakers, getting on stages to impact audiences, and helping people find the meaning inside what they've lived.
I am blown away by her creativity, audacity to speak her truth and her ability to create space for women to shine.
SHE'S THE EMBODIMENT OF VISIBILITy.
- TANYA PALUSO, FOUNDER OF SISTERSHIP CIRCLE
SPEAKING
YOUR PEOPLE DON'T NEED MORE COFIDENCE. THEY NEED TO STOP BELIEVING A STORY SOMEONE HANDED THEM.
Keynotes for organizations, conferences, leadership programs, and women’s ERGs exploring how the stories we carry shape how we speak, lead, and act — and what changes when we become the author of what comes next.
STORY CONSULTING FOR INDIVIDUALS
Story development and speaker coachinG FOR INDIVIDUALS who want to turn lived experience into something clear, compelling, and memorable.
Story-based training for teams ready to communicate and lead differently.
CONSULTING FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Christina Dunbar is a former dancer and performer turned keynote speaker, story consultant, and founder of the Female Voice Project.
On any given week she might be coaching a leadership team through a live storytelling session, producing a women's storytelling event, or standing on a stage telling the story she was certain would disqualify her.
For more than 12 years, she’s helped people turn lived experience into stories that move a room, and built the rooms where they get to do it
She is the creator of the acclaimed one-woman show Dirty Me Divine, producer of Stories of Reclamation, and the founder of the Female Voice Project.
Her work is rooted in the belief that stories are not merely personal; they are cultural. Through speaking, performance, and storytelling she creates spaces where women reclaim what has been silenced, speak what has been buried, and discover themselves reflected in one another.
A live storytelling platform created and produced by Christina Dunbar, bringing women’s lived experiences to the stage.
Across more than a decade of story work, Christina has created spaces where women can shape, share, and reclaim the stories that formed them — work that directly informs the way she speaks and facilitates today.
STORIES OF RECLAMATION