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Danielle’s background of life and work experience in environmental study, community action, and business development began in her living room as a child and now spans four continents. With a B.A. in Community Psychology and a minor in Environmental Studies, Danielle decided to travel the world. During five years of independent, international travel and development work experience, Danielle lived in Laos and launched one of South East Asia’s first community performance spaces, created and taught the region’s first college course in Sustainable Development through partnership with environmental NGOs, served as a trainee in the Peace Corps in Senegal as an Environmental Educator, and worked in Berlin as the Development Director for the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy.
Upon return to the U.S., Danielle worked extensively in several social enterprise, travel and green companies and start-ups to build the business development foundation necessary to launch any venture. After successfully designing and delivering business and marketing strategies for startups and sustainable ventures, Danielle traveled towards her true passion and founded Travelcology in fall of 2007, a site to retool tourism into a vehicle for positive social change. When the world economy changed drastically, this global vision was recycled into a local strategy with a real time need: support the current sustainable businesses in one's own backyard. Danielle decided to ally forces with Fred Sullivan, jointly build a team, and launch their new mission, Open Venture Society, a consumers cooperative geared to grow and support the next generation of socially and ecologically responsible ventures.
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