Danielle is the Policy and Development Officer for Here NI, a charity that supports and empowers lesbian and bisexual women and their families. She has a background in Law and Human Resources, qualifying as a solicitor in 2009 before completing a PgDip in Human Resource Management in 2013. For the past few years, Danielle has been working on a PhD project at Ulster University researching barriers to Protestant Unionist Loyalists women’s political participation and teaching politics and social policy. Danielle is also involved in feminist activism with Belfast Feminist Network and Alliance for Choice, and co-organiser of the annual Reclaim the Night Belfast march against street harassment and gender-based violence.