Most recently, Danne served as the Director of Policy and Programs at Athlete Ally, where they led global advocacy campaigns and built coalitions focused on advancing gender equity and LGBTQI+ human rights, particularly for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex communities and ending discriminatory policies and practices in sports.

Before Athlete Ally, Danne led grantmaking and advocacy initiatives in South and Southeast Asia for AJWS and spent two transformative years in Thailand on a Fulbright Fellowship where their research focused on gender and sexuality in Muay Thai. Prior to this, Danne earned a prestigious Schomburg Center for Research and Black Culture Fellowship and worked for the Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP). Danne graduated from Columbia University with an M.A. in Human Rights and holds a B.A. in African and African American Studies and Women's Studies from Fordham University.

Danne’s work and values are anchored by the words of Civil Rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” Beyond their advocacy work, Danne is a three-time national champion Muay Thai fighter and coach, a recent competitive runner, and a volunteer firefighter-in-training. Danne is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, with their spouse and hound dog, Harvey Chocolate Milk.