Dani Padilla (she/they/elle), a first-generation child of Indige-Latinx immigrants from Durango, Tepehuán, and Baja Sur, México lineages, serves as the Co-Director of Resource Mobilization. Committed to building a solidarity economy fortified by harmonious and sacred relationships among people and with the earth, Dani brings nearly a decade of experience in organizational leadership, grassroots fundraising, program development, and social movement resourcing.

Most recently, Dani served as the Development Director for Órale, an abolitionist immigrant justice organization. In this role, Dani worked at the intersection of community care, anti-violence work, revenue generation, resource mobilization, solidarity economy, immigrant-centered and led visions for healing. By reclaiming ancestral technologies, Dani is overjoyed to enrich the waterways within Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s movement ecology, nurturing and centering liberation for all beings.

Dani holds degrees from Mount St. Mary’s University and American University and has recently trained at the Trauma Resource Institute as a certified community resiliency teacher. Dani will also be completing teacher training weaving in embodied yoga, meditation, and mindfulness from a decolonized perspective, drawing from personal experience of existing cancer survivorship. They live in a vibrant home with their partner and pup Ruda, where they immerse themselves in community herbalism, long distance mindful backpacking, and experimentation with growing food within el Cañon de Silverado, nestled in the Santa Ana Mountains.