A native of Haiti, Danielle is a former
UNICEF/UN envoy to Africa, Latin America
and the Caribbean. She served as Executive
Director of the HIV Task Force of the Association
of Haitian Physicians Abroad, Inc. a scientific
membership organization. She has developed
award-winning HIV prevention programs for
community based organizations and treatment
centers in New York, Massachusetts and Florida.
Consultant to several minority and Caribbean
community-based organizations, she has developed
numerous programs in culturally competency,
grant writing and fundraising while serving
as Policy Analyst and Consultant to several
United States and International Development
organizations. She has considerable expertise
in community mobilization around health
issues and the processes of community health
action planning, especially for racially,
ethnically and linguistically diverse populations
both in the United States and abroad.
As
senior staff of UNICEF in Guinea, Senegal,
the Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, and
Cameroon, she has also worked in Southern
Africa, Central/East Africa and ten countries
in Latin America and the Caribbean. From
1998 to 2001, she was assigned by UNAIDS/UNDP
as Adviser for Social Mobilization against
HIV/AIDS in Haiti. An expert on HIV/AIDS
policy in minority communities and developing
countries, Danielle is currently concentrating
her efforts in the African/African American,
Caribbean and Haitian Communities in the
United States. Danielle is considered an
influential international health advocate
and key opinion leader for the Haitian community
and has been sought by high level policy
makers and a number of Federal and State
agencies for her assistance in understanding
and outreach to Caribbean and African populations.
Danielle
attended Hunter College of the City University
of New York, Howard University Graduate
School and the United Nations Training System.
She has received citations from Costa Rica,
the Dominican Republic, Equatorial Guinea
and Haiti for her promotion of gender equity
and HIV prevention. An active member of
the Afro-Latino Women’s network, she is
fluent in French, English, Spanish, Haitian
Creole and conversant in an assortment of
African dialects and languages.
|
