Ria Dark

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  • Username: Ria
  • Producer and Host
  • Role: Host: Station-Based
  • Day: 614-571-0751

About Me

Ria Dark MS, LSW, SAP, MHFA is the CEO and Founder of 2Rogues and Clinical Director of Comprehensive Benefits Consultants. She possesses experiences from the fields of education, human services, the public and private sector.
A published author and a columnist at the Black Rock Beacon she is actively sought out as a speaker at National conferences.

Ms. Dark provides trainings in Mental Health, for EAP, and for Mental Health Ambassadors. She is also the Clinical Director and Director of Coaching Operations at Bonfire Digital Wellness.

Ms. Dark is certified by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board as a licensed provider and a Substance Abuse Professional for the Department of Transportation, as well as a National Provider for Medicaid/Medicare. She holds certifications in Mental Health First Aid and Facilitator of the Active Parenting Curriculum providing successful clinical guidance in the group therapy setting. She has provided clinical group therapies for agencies over the course of twenty years and as a certified Sexual Health Instructor with the Red Cross.

Ms. Dark is also a certified provider of Continuing Education Units.

Ria Dark is highly regarded by her peers, her business associates and creates lasting relationships and tailored services. And she has a uniquely energizing and compassionate quality and provides her programming in a manner which she describes as, “Edutainment”. Ms. Dark is also the producer and host of You Inc. and companion show YouTune podcasted everywhere and on Nationally Syndicated PRX/PRI, that are part wellness, part talk show with esteemed and every day celebrities. You can find more about Ria on Linkedin and at her corporate website, 2Rogues.

Ria Dark holds a Bachelor is Science from the Ohio State University. A Masters in Counseling from the University of Dayton and is All But Dissertation in Human Services for her doctoral studies.

Ria Dark lives her two children and five cats. A former model and actress, she is also the Model Trainer for Columbus College of Art and Design’s Premier Event, the Senior Fashion Show. She is an enthusiastic mentor for the OSU Young Graduates Mentoring program, and proudly coaches her daughter’s soccer team and her son’s basketball team. Ria has presented a PechaKucha 20 x 20 talk about how she spearheaded a successful Public Edibles Initiative in a public park with fruit bearing trees, and nut bearing shrubs and annuals of vegetables
and herbs for public consumption and pollinator pathways.

Ms. Dark also shares adventures and passion for animal activism and as an Airbnb Experience Host, raises Monarch and Black Swallowtail butterflies with her kiddos, aka Team Pizza.

My Groups:
Favorite Shows: This American Life, Fresh Air, Schitt's Creek, Black Mirror
Influences: Oprah, Terri Gross, Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Availability

Ria is currently available for new projects, has a car, and is available to travel Within my country.

Skills

  • Voice Talent
  • Hosting Call-in and Live Programs
  • Podcast Production: Moderate to High
  • Reporting
  • Writing
  • Raise Monarch and Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterflies

Available For

  • Mentoring
  • Voiceover
  • Acting
  • Interviewing
  • Podcasting
  • Long Walks on the Beach
  • Consulting
  • Environmental Reporting
  • Colossal bike rides
  • Handstands in the ocean

Equipment

  • My spirit

Languages I Speak

  • English
  • Greek
  • Pig Latin