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A perfectly flawed kaleidoscope of innate creativity, vivid dreams, and untold stories, Danielle S. Mooney (Norfolk State University, BA | Columbia University, MSW) is a black queer femme collaborative, interdisciplinary and often adjacent storyteller originating from the home of Go-Go, Mumbo Sauce, and the original HU who started journaling to survive adolescence. Her voice is rooted in unmothered girl/womanhood, defining self and home, and being neurodivergent with the intent to amplify Black Femme/Queer images and voices, build and mend relationships, and normalize otherness so that outliers can live in truth, joy, and connection.

Danielle curates storytelling spaces who have been historically ignored and marginalized. Some of her credits include: shorts I Won the Lottery and MamaDuke (Co-Producer), webseries Dekalog: James & Danielle (Co-Writer), and feature Water in a Broken Glass (Co-Writer/Co-Producer). She is a 2020 VONA and 2023 LAMBDA Literary Writers Retreat screenwriting fellow. Currently, Danielle is tapping into her magic realism/fantasy drama writing with her first solo feature in development and recently finished the 2023 Third World Newsreel Film Production Program where she is wrote, produced, and directed her first solo ideation, BrokenWhole, an experimental psychological drama exploring black mother/daughter dynamics on the backdrop of mental health and suicide.

Outside of storytelling, Danielle loves to bake, spend time with folx, travel, and interior design on a budget.