Proudly born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Danielle Elizabeth Stevens is an integrative health and wellness educator and multi-disciplinary artist working in service of social change globally. Her expertise spans a range of modalities including sensory, imagination, and dreaming arts, performance arts, fashion and beauty, professional creative writing, as well as culinary arts and nutrition. As an ancestral-led spiritual cultural worker with almost 15 years of professional experience, Danielle utilizes evidence-based practices and artistic interventions to design dynamic healing spaces to improve the health outcomes and the quality of life of marginalized populations. Danielle’s focus is on uplifting and honoring the everyday artistry and sacred divinity of those who exist at the margins, of the “Other”. Her art negotiates the relationships between the dismantling of oppressive social structures and the beautiful reimagining of brave new worlds.
Danielle has provided a range of professional services including health, wellness, and healing justice capacity-building; strategic diversity and inclusion consulting; curriculum development and design; empathy-based leadership training; and integrative arts curation and programming in over 50 cities nationally, 10 countries internationally, and in collaboration with hundreds of community partners worldwide. She is humbled and honored to have learned from and worked with spiritual-religious leaders and medicine people globally including the monastics of Chiang Mai, Thailand and the indigenous curanderos near Ciudad de México, where she now calls home.
Danielle is trained in Mindful Self Compassion, Anti-Oppression Facilitation, Non Violent Communication, and holds an Advanced Degree in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara where in 2009 she co-created the very first WOC sangha for BIPOC women, femmes, and non-binary people locally. She is the Founding Director of Moonlight Wellness, a community-based organization specializing in high-impact healing justice programs for Black folks and QTPOC. She is also the Executive Director and Head Chef for the critically acclaimed #WeStillGottaEat Initiative, an international project committed to global food justice, culinary excellence, and improving the health and wellness outcomes of disadvantaged communities worldwide. Danielle’s features include the cover of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times Magazine, The Laura Coates Show, CNN, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and of course This Bridge Called Our Health, the beloved publication she founded to create discourse and produce culture at the intersection of art, social justice, health, and healing.
Danielle spends much of her time slow-traveling the world with her perrhijo, styling charcuterie boards and creating culinary art, hosting and attending silent meditation retreats, and teaching marginalized communities how to use mindfulness and imagination for collective restoration and social change. In her spare time she can be found indulging at the spa, preparing wholesome (mostly) vegan meals, riding motorcycles in a foreign country, being competitive at (&, of course, winning) board games, taking karaoke way too seriously, and dancing in the middle of the dance floor, even when she is the only one there. <3
She can be reached at INFO@DanielleElizabethStevens.Com