I learned early that the story you tell about what happened can shape what happens next.
Christina Dunbar’s work began with a story she was afraid to tell.
After years as a dancer and stripper, she carried deep shame about that chapter of her life. Eventually, she wrote it down, shaped it for the stage, and created her one-woman show, Dirty Me Divine.
What surprised her wasn’t only what telling the story changed in her. It was what happened in the audience.
People saw themselves in a story that wasn’t literally theirs. The details were personal, but the feelings and emotions, those were universal.
That experience became the foundation of the work she has spent the last 12+ years building: helping people make meaning from what they’ve lived, shape it into story, and use that story to create connection, clarity, and impact.
From personal story to public work
The meaning we make from what we’ve lived becomes the story we lead from
Today Christina works across three areas:
Her work includes:
200+ stories shaped and brought to stage
450+ women gathered through a CalMHSA-funded storytelling event
12+ years as a storyteller and facilitator
Six years with The Plus Me Project
Founder of the Female Voice Project
Creator and producer of Stories of Reclamation
What shapes us isn’t only what happened.
It’s the meaning we made from it.
That idea became the foundation of her Narrator → Critic → Author framework and now sits at the center of her speaking, consulting, and storytelling work.
She helps people recognize the stories they’re operating from, question the ones that no longer serve them, and consciously decide what they carry forward.
Talks for organizations, conferences, leadership programs, and women’s ERGs.
Story Consulting
Helping individuals develop personal stories, talks, and narratives that can move an audience.
Organizational Storytelling
Story-based workshops and programs that help teams and women inside organizations develop voice, connection, and public expression.
MORE FUN FACTS
Burlesque was where I finally found freedom in my body and soul.
BALLET AND MARTHA GRAHAM'S MODERN DANCE WERE MY LIFE AS A TEEN
I met my husband when I was 21 years old.
I come FROM BABA YAGA LANDS. RUSSIAN IS MY NATIVE LANGUAGE AND ALTHOUGH I LIVE IN LA, MY SOUL BELONGS IN THE WOODS.