Presented by Olga Trujillo, Director of Education & Social Change at Latinos United for Peace and Equity (LUPE), a National Initiatives of Caminar Latino.

Olga Trujillo was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) at the age of 31 in response to crimes she experienced in adolescence. Over the past 26 years she has undergone an intense journey to understand what Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is, how she developed it, the impact on her life, and she began to address the challenges she faced in healing. In 2011 Olga’s memoir, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor’s Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder was released by New Harbinger Publications. In this workshop, she will bring her experience of DID to help participants expand their knowledge from an inside out perspective. Participants will explore how DID develops, what the signs are, how it can impact a survivor’s ability to report a crime and participate in the criminal and civil legal proceedings, and how service providers can help to lessen that impact for victims with DID.