Daniel is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist based in Oakland, California.

He works at The Center for Mindful Psychotherapy and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

In addition, he has over 14 years of experience working as a public health nurse with vulnerable and underserved populations in SF and Oakland.

He has worked extensively with the homeless and other low-income populations as a clinician in community mental health. His work is trauma-informed and anti-racist. Focusing on social justice and human rights, he is passionate about ensuring access to basic services including medicine, mental healthcare, and housing. He has worked for two public health departments and two Medicaid plans.

He has studied Theravada Buddhism for close to two decades and has spent 6 months in silent retreat practicing meditation. He was a student of the Diamond Approach for nearly a decade.

He lived on a refugee camp in West Africa in his early twenties which had a profound impact on his understanding of white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism and globalization.

For the past five years, he has been based out of Oakland working for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation which provides life-saving care to 1.7 million patients in 45 counties.

He previously was a journalist for KALW, an NPR-affiliate station in San Francisco reporting on the shifting landscape of healthcare in the context of the Affordable Care Act.

He sits on the Oakland TGA Planning Council which makes decisions about how to allocate HIV funding in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.