Danielle Harder is the immediate past-president of the Rotary Club of Whitby in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. She is also co-chair of the Food Truck Frenzy organizing committee and past chair of the Public Relations Committee. As well, Danielle is the volunteer communications director with the Canadian non-profit Honouring Indigenous Peoples, an organization founded by Rotarians.
In her professional life, Danielle is a professor in the Journalism – Mass Media program at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, where she teaches and mentors students in multimedia production. She has led several international student projects and experiential learning projects focused on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and Indigenous rights. She recently completed a secondment as a Global Learning Facilitator, where she created educational opportunities to promote cross-cultural understanding and global competencies among faculty and students.
Before joining Durham College, Danielle worked across Canada as a reporter, editor, and producer for CBC Radio and Television, and wrote for several national magazines and local media outlets. She holds a degree in Journalism and Communications from the University of Regina and a master’s degree in Communications and Technology from the University of Alberta.