Elena Martínez-Torres
Program Director
Sustained Dialogue Institute
Elena Martínez-Torres is a Puerto Rican community psychologist, dialogue facilitator, and social researcher. She is the program director for the Sustained Dialogue Institute, where she directs a portfolio of programs for campuses, workplaces, and communities around the world. Through these programs, she supports capacity-building initiatives designed to develop dialogue and collaborative problem-solving skills.
Over the last 10 years, Martínez-Torres has dedicated her career to facilitating dialogues to enable cross-sector collaborations, co-designing capacity-building programs toward strengthening citizen competencies and contributing to participatory research studies.