Danielle Neal serves as Senior Policy Counsel for Collier Collective, where she helps to lead its criminal legal system reform and youth justice advocacy. Danielle’s focus has included increasing federal funding for critical programs in the labor as well as criminal and youth justice appropriations bills. Through these annual spending bills, Danielle has advocated for and secured federal funding increases on behalf of workforce development and reentry programs serving individuals with criminal legal histories, innocence and forensic science programs remediating and preventing wrongful convictions, and harm reduction programs providing life-saving overdose prevention services.

Prior to joining Collier Collective, Danielle served as a law clerk for the DC Public Housing Authority and spent her time in law school as a legal advocate on domestic violence issues for Legal Aid of DC Family Law Division and with the DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She also served as a legislative intern for Congressman Dave Loebsack (D-IA-02).