Dr. Marty Casey

Dr. Marty K. Casey, a Global Peace Ambassador has built a fulfilling and impactful career that traverses entertainment and community service, an anointed singer, gifted actress, writer, producer, and director. No matter what hat she is wearing her noteworthy goal is pointed–“To heal our community, to provide a response and outlet for inbred trauma.” 

The first African American woman to serve the St Louis Public School with her Anti-Gun Violence Program. Her portfolio of contributions and body of work continues to evolve, as she combines her passion for the ARTS with her compassion for her community!  

Dr. Casey asserts “Hurt people hurt people. Healed people heal people.” She has set out to support individuals, families, and communities heal with her latest development of UnGUN Institute©, focused on disarming Trauma in individuals, to heal from collective trauma events which plague the black communities.

For many years now, Dr. Casey has leveraged her passion for Art, combining it with her compassion for Activism, which led her to coin the term “Actrivist” to best describe her mission. ShowMeArts Academy/Foundation (501c3) was established in 2014 as a response to the unrest of Ferguson, it was the first arts organization to be established to address collective trauma of the community.

After more than three decades as a performing artist on major global stages, Dr. Marty K. Casey has transformed her craft beyond the world of entertainment to show the restorative power of the arts to heal hurting people. In 2020, just days before a forced lock down caused by a global pandemic, Dr. Marty performed her one-woman show in the Big Apple for the largest non-profit nation-wide, AARP Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Marty brilliantly used the story of her own trauma-ridden life to give hope to a sold-out crowd. This performance shined light on arts efficacy as a tool for mitigating trauma impact. Following her New York show, the close of theatres throughout the world brought an abrupt halt to Dr. Marty’s live performances, a pivotal moment that prompted Dr. Marty to relaunch her artistic focus to address a more pressing societal need: trauma impact resolution.

Featured on the cover of the St. Louis Business Journal, Dr. Marty is lauded as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Businesswomen in St. Louis. In 2021, she received the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award signed by President Joseph R. Biden. Dr. Marty actively serves on the Grants Council for PurposeEarth.com in alignment with her mission to heal communities through the empowerment of recovery through expressive arts. In 2023, Dr. Marty K. Casey was placed on the Wall of Fame at her high school Webster Groves High School in Missouri.   She was the first female of her 1989 class to be voted to receive this prestige honor. Dr. Marty has also recently received her second doctorate accolades.

Globally recognized as a transformational trauma coach, Dr. Marty K. Casey remains committed to equipping as many people as possible with strategies, tools, and techniques such as STOP! Breathe. Think! With 24 billboards throughout St. Louis for her Safe Summer Initiative partnership with OutFront Media. Dr. Marty’s life mission is to eradicate harmful responses to trauma that wreak havoc on families, communities, and the world, at large.

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