Danielle Forward

Danielle Forward is a member of the Makahmo Pomo tribe and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. At Santa Rosa Junior College, Danielle Forward obtained her Associates in Social Behavioral Science and Global Studies. Forward took ten years to obtain a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts in its interactive design program, working part-time and going into debt in order to finance both her schooling and her living situation in California. She graduated as valedictorian. == Career ==

Early career While attending college, Forward worked various jobs to pay for her education. She worked as a personal assistant, barista, GameStop employee, ice cream and smoothie seller, and coder for drug testing data. She stayed at the company for five years, until leaving Meta in 2023 to work on Natives Rising full-time. Activism Building on her involvement as a lead in Meta's employee resource group Native@Facebook, Danielle Forward became involved in advocacy for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). == References ==