Dani Ortíz Padilla (she/they/elle) first- generation child of Latine immigrants of Tepehuán and Baja Sur, México lineages, Dani serves as the Co-Director of Resource Mobilization, Dani is committed to building a solidarity economy fortified by harmonious and sacred relationships among people and with earth. Dani brings nearly a decade of experience in organizational leadership, grassroots fundraising, program development, and social movement resourcing. 

Dani most recently served as the Development Director for Orale, an abolitionist immigrant justice organization, working at the intersection of community care, resource mobilization strategy, systems design, and immigrant liberatory visions for healing. By reclaiming ancestral technologies, Dani is overjoyed to enrich the waterways within Buddhist Peace Fellowships’ movement ecology; one that nurtures and centers liberation for all beings. In addition to extensive real-world experience in the nonprofit movement space, Dani is an alumna of Mount St. Mary's University and American University, as well as recently trained at the Trauma Resource Institute as a certified community resiliency teacher, Dani  will also be completing her teacher training at Tree Yoga Co-op's Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) in Fall weaving in embodied knowledge of yoga, meditation and mindfulness from a decolonized perspective and draws from their own experience in a body wrestling with cancer.

They live in an overflowing buoyant home with her partner and perrita Ruda where they immerse themselves in capturing story, dreamwork, yerberia, and experimentation with growing milpa.