Supporting LGBTQ+ Students

As Direc­tor of Com­mu­ni­ty Schol­ar­ships at San Diego Foun­da­tion (SDF), which pow­ers the Nation­al Rain­bow Col­lege Fund, Danielle over­sees the over­all vision, plan­ning and man­age­ment of the SDF Com­mu­ni­ty Schol­ar­ships Pro­gram, which annu­al­ly awards more than $4.5 mil­lion to San Diego col­lege stu­dents. She works to imple­ment strate­gic direc­tion, gen­er­ate new funds and cham­pi­on the advance­ment of edu­ca­tion­al equi­ty for schol­ar­ship recip­i­ents — the major­i­ty of whom are first-gen­er­a­tion, low-income and under­rep­re­sent­ed.

Danielle start­ed at SDF in May 2011, pro­vid­ing local non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tions with ser­vices and tools to help increase their sus­tain­abil­i­ty, and served as donor man­ag­er for more than 300 non­prof­it funds.

Pri­or to join­ing SDF, Danielle worked at the Mus­cu­lar Dys­tro­phy Asso­ci­a­tion, where she man­aged a health­care ser­vices pro­gram for more than 1,000 patient fam­i­lies. Danielle earned both her bach­e­lor’s master’s degrees in cul­tur­al anthro­pol­o­gy from the UC San Diego.