Community Inclusion & Services
Darya Farivar
Community Engagement Manager
Darya Farivar has served in multiple roles at DRW starting out as Community and Legislative Liaison for the Trueblood lawsuit, later becoming the Director of Public Policy and Community Mobilization, Director of the Entrepreneurial Supports Team, and now the Community Engagement Manager. She earned a degree in Communicative Disorders and minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Redlands. After graduation, she found a job which combined all her interests- advocating for immigrants and refugees who have loved ones with developmental disabilities.
During her time at DRW, she was able to refine her policy expertise, sharpen her legislative advocacy skills, and deepen her passion of uplifting those with direct lived experience to tell their own stories at tables of power. Darya continues to use those skills in her current role at DRW and her other role as Washington State Representative of the 46th Legislative District in NE Seattle.
In her free time, she serves as a founding board member for the Washington Coalition for Police Accountability, volunteers for Iranian cultural organizations, and spends time in the garden with her rescue Pitbull, Dragon. Darya holds her Iranian heritage close to her heart, believes that social justice is a lifestyle, and that movements are stronger together!