Danielle DeRuiter-Williams

Danielle is an equity, diversity and inclusion strategist and Co-Founder and Head of Growth and Expansion at The Justice Collective. She is committed to organizational transformation that unapologetically centers race and class equity in every context. A gifted Equity trainer and facilitator Danielle brings both humor and vulnerability to her engagements. With clients, Danielle works closely to surface underlying barriers to change and to build the capacity of clients to go beyond what they perceive to be possible to do what is necessary to achieve their equity goals. Danielle founded and led the development of the San Francisco Planning Department’s first Racial and Ethnic Equity Initiative which included the creation and implementation of a comprehensive equity roadmap. With TJC, Danielle has worked with a number of clients across all sectors on project scopes ranging from retreat facilitation to comprehensive strategy development and implementation. Danielle holds a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Grand Valley State University, a dual Master’s Degrees from the University of California Los Angeles in Urban and Regional Planning and Afro-American Studies. Danielle also holds an MBA from Mills College with a concentration in Equitable Organizational Development and Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.