Betty Ramirez Swinners is passionate and delivers powerful keynote addresses at conferences, luncheons and vigils for Colleges & Universities, Domestics Violence Agencies, Rape Crisis Centers and Women's Organizations.

Betty is a motivational speaker who has dedicated her life to sharing her story of success and survival to encourage others to believe in themselves. A survivor of abuse, she was raised as a homeless child, living in an abandoned house. Education was not a priority to her family, but adversity did not stop Betty from becoming a success.  Her message is "If you believe, you will achieve. It does not matter where you come from, what matters is where you are going."

She is the Owner/Chief Executive Officer of Diversity Speakers, a company established to promote minority public speakers and trainers to ensure diversity. She specializes in the development and evaluation of national and grassroots programs, diversity campaigns, coalition building, and diversity related trainings and ethnic specific issues.

She has been recognized as "One of Texas Most Influential Women" by Texas Hispanic Magazine, inducted into "The Hispanic Women's Hall of Fame" by Hispanic Women in Leadership and is the recipient of the First Anna Maria Arias Memorial Business Fund Awards presented to outstanding Latina business owners at the Hispanic Businesswomen’s luncheon during the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) Annual National Convention.

Betty has developed presentations, workshops, and keynote addresses which are targeted toward leadership and improving understanding of the cultural differences of Hispanics, African Americans, Native Americans and other ethnicities. She has over 14 years experience and has done hundreds of presentations, workshops, and keynote addresses throughout the United States at International, National, State and Local conferences and agencies.
 
Betty is responsible for the development of the national "Path of Hope" Native American video and poster campaign and the Latino focused award winning "Pasa Las Llaves" campaign for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. In addition to her work with MADD, Betty has worked on the development faith based initiative campaigns for organizations like the American Heart Association and domestic violence awareness campaigns working with celebrities like Selena Quintanilla. Her work includes coalition building and building diverse boards with the placement of individuals like actor Edward James Olmos and author/poet Maya Angelou.

She is the co-author of "Tortilla Soup for the Spirit" and will soon release two new books "Daily Affirmations for Latinos" and "A Story of Hope and Fried Chicken." 

Every person who's been touched by domestic violence has a story to tell.  But none can be more compelling than Betty's.  You could hear a pin drop during her presentation, punctuated only with gasps of incredulity and tears of sympathy.  Betty was one of four speakers at our forum, "Domestic Violence through the Eyes of Survivors . . . Journeys of Hope."  She epitomized the purpose of our forum -- to share stories of courage, strength, survival, and inspiration with other
victims of domestic violence.  We couldn't have asked for a better presenter.

Marci Sanders
Director of Operations
Shelter for Abused Women & Children

Naples, Florida

Betty has a very powerful and moving story and she certainly displays a lot of hope and encouragement to other women that may be in the same situation. Some of the women that heard her speak that particular day that were in abusive relationships. I truly believe this has encouraged them to begin looking down alternative avenues and trying to get out of this relationships. Betty is definite proof that you can survive, you can move on and there is more to life than abuse. I will continue to highly recommend Betty to anyone that is looking for a speaker regarding domestic violence and family abuse. There aren’t too many speakers out here that can bring home the message as clear as she can. Thank you for visiting us in Canada and sharing your story with us!

Lou Patterson

FCSS Coordinator

Town of Black Diamond