About Dale
Dale Bratter earned her bachelors and masters degrees from New York University. She has spent four decades working in a variety of capacities with vulnerable and marginalized women and children. Dale was a teacher of students with severe cognitive and developmental delays; produced and directed special education television shows for WNYE-TV; worked in the fields of domestic violence and residential drug treatment for women; and spent a decade as a social worker with marginalized African American and Black women and children with HIV/AIDS, and their caregivers during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Her commentaries on social issues have appeared in the Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time, and other national Hearst publications. Articles about her have appeared in Newsday and the AARP magazine My Generation.
IN THEIR PRESENCE: Untold Stories of Women and Children During the AIDS Epidemic is Dale’s first book. She lives in Cos Cob, Connecticut with her husband Warren, a retired university professor. Together they have six adult children, eight grandchildren, and enjoy birding, hiking, and kayaking.