Yahira DeLeon
VICTIM ASSISTANCE CASE MANAGER
& AYUDA LATINA HOTLINE SUPERVISOR
ydeleon@sepamujer.org
Yahira (Yari) DeLeón of Dominican descent was born and raised in the Inwood Heights region of New York City, NY. She attended Aquinas HS in the South Bronx and continued her college education and graduated from SUNY Stony Brook. As a young girl and throughout her teenage years, Yari has always been involved in helping the community where she lived and always giving back whenever and wherever she could. As a first-generation American, she felt she owed it to her parents to get an education and help up lift her community and those alike for better opportunities. She sat on various community-based youth boards that geared its attention to helping the adult youth become pillars within their community. She continued her passion for youth empowerment and leadership during her high school years by spearheading many community services and programs to benefit the youth in the Bronx and Manhattan. Her passion for community advocacy and systemic change y followed her throughout her college education. She graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in Multidisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Social and Behavioral Sciences and a Minor in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Throughout LI, she has over 25 years of personal commitment to the needs of our youth and of the Latino community. She has aided in community outreach programs and facilitating workshops/speaking engagements. Professionally she has years of experience in customer service and community development. She has received distinguished recognition from various community agencies from both Suffolk and Nassau County for her dedication to the Latino Community and its youth. In 2017 she decided that she felt she needed to expand her knowledge in Policy and Political Social Action to help aide the community she was serving further and she went back to her Alma Mater for her Masters. In 2019, she received her Master’s in Social Work from Stony Brook University with a concentration in Community, Policy and Political Social Action. This opened up opportunities for her and brought her to the S.T.R.O.N.G. familia in March 2019 where she has been working as a Mental Health Specialist. Here she is committed to making a difference in the lives of young people and empowering them to make positive life choices and aid in healing our youth and their trauma they have faced and help them achieve their goals and have a brighter future.
Yari has been married for 19 years to her loving and supporting husband Jules DeLeón and her proudest accomplishments are her two beautiful daughters Maia and Leila, who in their own right are quite the philanthropists and community advocates.
Throughout LI, she has over 25 years of personal commitment to the needs of our youth and of the Latino community. She has aided in community outreach programs and facilitating workshops/speaking engagements. Professionally she has years of experience in customer service and community development. She has received distinguished recognition from various community agencies from both Suffolk and Nassau County for her dedication to the Latino Community and its youth. In 2017 she decided that she felt she needed to expand her knowledge in Policy and Political Social Action to help aide the community she was serving further and she went back to her Alma Mater for her Masters. In 2019, she received her Master’s in Social Work from Stony Brook University with a concentration in Community, Policy and Political Social Action. This opened up opportunities for her and brought her to the S.T.R.O.N.G. familia in March 2019 where she has been working as a Mental Health Specialist. Here she is committed to making a difference in the lives of young people and empowering them to make positive life choices and aid in healing our youth and their trauma they have faced and help them achieve their goals and have a brighter future.
Yari has been married for 19 years to her loving and supporting husband Jules DeLeón and her proudest accomplishments are her two beautiful daughters Maia and Leila, who in their own right are quite the philanthropists and community advocates.
