Danielle Washington is an MPH-epidemiology graduate of UW-Milwaukee’s Zilber School of Public Health and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences from the UW-Milwaukee. She is an experienced and resolute public health professional with extensive knowledge of public health policy, administration, public health education, clinical research, community engagement, and proven success in organizing, analyzing, and delivering public health services, disease prevention programs, and community initiatives. Ms. Washington has been commended for her leadership ability to develop and apply departmental policies and internal controls while adhering to strict health standards and regulations that enhanced equitable and culturally and linguistically appropriate and responsive services for ~1.5M members in Wisconsin’s Medicaid program during the height of the COVID pandemic. Additionally, Danielle’s public health work has been influential in advancing and informing STD/STI, tuberculosis, Alzheimer’s disease, colorectal cancer, and food insecurity detection and prevention strategies.
Ms. Washington has received awards and recognition for her academic, leadership, and environmental excellence. In 2018, she received the McNair Scholars Award; She was awarded a scholarship by the Zilber Family Foundation in 2019; she was a recipient of the Advanced Opportunity Program Fellowship from 2017 - 2019, completed a fellowship in 2021 with the New Leaders Council Wisconsin Chapter; and more recently, in 2022, was awarded an Environmental Rising Star Award.
As a lover of the arts and skillful visual artist, Ms. Washington combines her artistic gifts with her public health, community engagement, and social justice passions. This combination allows her to improve health and advance equity in disadvantaged and marginalized communities of Milwaukee while uplifting their voices and stories. She currently serves on the Adams Garden Park Arts Initiative Committee and works as a Program Manager with Community Water Services, an organization missioned to offering awareness, education, and solutions to the public about water quality in their interior water supplies, with a vision of all people in Milwaukee having access to safe drinking water daily. She is actively leading a program to deliver clean water to licensed and certified family childcare programs and directing a youth initiative to provide academic-focused water-sector mentoring and employment training for high school students, focusing on water science and environmental education. Outside of work and service, Danielle is a devoted mother of one daughter and together, they enjoy art, music, writing, traveling, being active in the great outdoors, and spending time with their loved ones.
