Danielle is the assistant director at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA and a Ph.D candidate at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She began her career in 2006 as an epidemiologist at the Sinai Urban Health Institute and since then has continued to work on issues related to health equity. In 2008, Danielle co-founded Urban Health Perspectives (UHP) with the goal of addressing social determinants of health and promoting evidence based methods in community programming. In 2010, Danielle became the Associate Director of the Chicago Breast Cancer Quality Consortium which aimed to reduce racial disparities in breast cancer outcomes through quality improvement. In this position, she worked in collaboration with the Illinois Department of Human Services to assess and improve the quality of breast cancer prevention and care in medical institutions throughout Illinois counties.
In 2013, Danielle enrolled in the Community Health Sciences Doctoral program at UCLA with a minor in Law. Since then, she has devoted her academic efforts to examining the effectiveness of incarceration as a public safety institution and as a social determinant of mental and physical wellbeing in Black U.S. communities. Since coming to UCLA, Danielle has co-founded the UCLA Justice Work Group, is a member of the University of California Criminal Justice & Health Consortium and a Justice Policy Network Fellow. She has worked with the Violence Prevention Coalition in LA and as a researcher on the Million Dollar Hoods project at UCLA. She has facilitated the first UCLA credited college course for high school graduated youth in juvenile hall.
