Dana DiFilippo

Dana DiFilippo is a Co-Founder of Survivors' Solidarity March. She is a survivor, mother, poet, activist, and advocate. Dana grew up moving through different places, cultures, and versions of herself. Her father is a retired Air Force and because of that, she lived in multiple states and even spent time in South Korea, where her mother was born. That kind of upbringing gave her a wide view of people. It taught her that every person carries a story, and that compassion matters, especially when you do not know what someone has lived through.

Dana spent 19 years in the dark before she knew more existed. She comes to this work from a deeply personal perspective.  Over time, she became more outspoken and began sharing parts of her story publicly, because silence had almost taken it all. Survivors’ Solidarity March was born from that belief: that survivors deserve visibility, connection, information, and a public response that reflects the size of what we have carried.