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Dannah Wilson
Creative, Passionate, Empathetic she/her
Dannah Elise Wilson is a native Detroiter, multidimensional artist, historian and activist. Her story is birthed in education justice advocating against the nomination of Betsy DeVos, the country’s Secretary of Education during the President Trump administration. Prior to beginning her collegiate career, she took a year off focused on self discovery and life experience. In this year, she worked at a law firm, attended the Inaugural Obama Summit, and volunteered in Kenya for two months. She earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan in Afro American and African Studies. Michigan granted Dannah many opportunities such as an internship at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah along with conferences at Harvard University and in South Africa. Dannah has a wide variety of interests ranging from education, equitable medical access, and conscious media absent of the white gaze. She is also head of marketing for her family's new community center that recognizes trauma as one of the biggest barriers to education in the city of Detroit. Currently, she works as a property master for a local film production company.
“A journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do with what you find, or what you find will do to you.”
