Danielle Powell

Leadership 18

Danielle B. Powell serves as Program Manager of Leadership 18, an alliance of CEOs responsible for leading some of the country’s largest and most well respected charities, non-profits and faith-based organizations. Member organizations serve over 87 million people annually, with 5.6 million staff and volunteers, and represent $59 billion in total revenue.     Powell brings over a decade of strategic communications expertise informed by her work with various issue advocacy and non-profit organizations.  Powell brings a diversity of experiences working in strategic communications and project management and has developed strategic outreach plans and supported the execution of domestic and international meetings and events. Before joining Leadership 18, Powell served as an Account Executive at GMMB, a D.C.-based strategic communications and advertising firm focused on cause marketing. Her primary issue areas included campaigns such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Cover the Uninsured work and the International Vaccine Access Center World Pneumonia Day activities.    Powell holds a MPS in PR and Corporate Communications from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill. Powell serves on the Advisory Board for Goodwill Mission and Job Creation Services. She is married and lives in northern Virginia with her husband and two sons.