SPEAKING

Vanessa Priya Daniel is the author of Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning (Random House, 2025).

She is an organizer and award-winning leader for racial and gender justice. The heart of her work is supporting social justice leaders and philanthropy to build the grassroots power it takes to win a multiracial, feminist democracy.

A seasoned public speaker, she is know for inspiring audiences to action through a style that delivers both fire and humor.

Past Speaking Engagements

  • Aspen Institute

  • Ballot Initiative Strategy Center

  • Battery Powered

  • Bioneers

  • Brave Space Radio

  • Committee On States

  • Decolonizing Wealth Project

  • Donors of Color Network

  • Equity Summit

  • Ford Foundation

  • Funders Committee on Civic Participation

  • Funders for Reproductive Equity

  • Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership

  • Grantmakers in Health

  • Group Health Foundation

  • Health & Environmental Funders Network

  • Human Rights Funders Network

  • LeaderSpring Center

  • Maryland Regional Grantmaker’s Association

  • Northern California Grantmakers

  • Off Kilter Podcast

  • Philanthropy Northwest Annual Conference

  • Pink House Foundation

  • Pivotal Foundation

  • Rachel’s Network

  • Resource Generation

  • Sandyland Podcast

  • Social Change Diaries

  • SPARX Donor Network

  • The Philanthropy Workshop

  • Washington Regional Grantmaker’s Association

  • Washington Women’s Foundation

  • William Hewlett Foundation

  • Women Donor Network

  • Women Moving Millions

  • Women’s Foundation of California

  • Women’s Funding Network