Danny Weber Email & Phone Number

Durham, NC, US

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Create counselor continuing education training series for evidence-based practices to support gender and sexuality-expansive clients
• Adapt intake questionnaires to center diversity and equity, including reconsiderations of language, timing, and differential symptomatic presentations depending on racial, gender, and class-based identities
• Initiate the development of therapy group processes, including marketing, community collaborations, and compensation policies
• Collaborate with 20 clients a week with goals ranging from routines/task management to trauma integration to queer/trans identity empowerment
• Specialize in depth psychologies including resurrecting exiled parts of self, finding meaning within oppressive systems, and embodying actions through somatics/creative expression
• Maintain timely, detailed, and accurate documentation of individual and group therapy through insurance-approved notes

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Trained interns on intersectional and complex systemic analyses skills to incorporate into their own modalities of care, specifically noting axes of power/privilege
• Designed and implemented clinician satisfaction feedback surveys with insights that led to careworker retreats and a mentorship program
• Co-created a mutual aid healing practice with over 200 followers in 1mo (Queering Pleasure LLC) utilizing grant-writing, budget allocation, local organization collaborations, and consultant KPI metrics
• Support a minimum of 20-25 clients a week with practices that center the experiences of immigrant, working class, queer, neurodivergent, and BIPOC folx
• Developed virtual and in-person clinician and community engagement events like queer film series, online body-doubling note-writing, in-house trainings from peers, and identity-based forums.
• Continued to deepen expansiveness of treatment plans and bio-psycho-social assessments with creativity, imagination, and expansion of narrative, somatic, internal family systems, and liberation psychology modalities

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Coordinated the first collaboration between mental and physical health providers traveling to homeless campsites for to increase access to care with evaluations, mental health first aid, and harm reduction provisions
• Supported year-long continuous care with 12 clients with diagnostic presentations including complex trauma, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, major depression with psychotic features, borderline personality.
• Developed cultural adaptations to note-taking to support pronoun and name changes for clientele
• Facilitated weekly Trans and Gender Expansive Support group that centered gender-based validation, exploration, and resources
• Developed culturally competent, evidence-based, and individualized treatment plans with clients to create agreement on treatment goals
• Completed gender-affirming surgery letters with considerations for different types of surgeries, consultations, insurances, suicidality, and post-recovery material and mental health support

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Sponsored by the PULSE Urban Service Fellowship to serve with POWER:
• Practice flexibility with caring for 26 clients in residential treatment through supporting post-acute withdrawal healing, co-completing treatment phase work, attending medical and legal appointments, and motivational.
• Facilitate clinical program meetings monthly to improve house treatment structure, including developing trauma-informed revisions to programming
• Create and institute new curriculum involving considerations of macro U.S. governmental policies on drugs with race and class to incorporate in recovery staff trainings
• Culturally adapt and implement 6-week DBT recovery-oriented skills group
• Develop and lead psychoeducational life skills curriculum that includes holistic life skills from body image to time management to boundaries to sleep hygiene

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Develop trainings for workplace sexual harassment, consent practices, and safe reporting
• Maintain Sexual Assault Counselor status with over 60 hours of training on human trafficking, drug-facilitated sexual assault, and polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of trauma
• Consistently work two 12-hour helpline shifts a month to assess and provide immediate support for callers, including validation, safety planning, and resource connecting

Swarthmore, PA

• Copy edited Anthropology Professor Farha Ghannam’s newest book chapters, such as “Teaching Him To Care: Labor and the Making of Working-Class Men in Urban Egypt”
• Distributed weekly course readings for Ghannam’s course titled “Comparative Perspectives on the Body,” which included facilitating online-based reading responses
• Organized film screenings and lead post-screening discussions (my favorite of which was Divorce Iranian-style, because this film highlighted Iranian women’s ability to negotiate for their rights, combatting stereotypes.

Swarthmore, PA

• Balanced twelve hours a week of inventory, paging, shelving, and checking out materials
• Organized the annual library book fair with my primary task being book sorting by genre and price
• Achieved the Silver Sub merit badge for subbing a total of 30 hours during a single semester
• Develop ordering lists for the library to obtain new works.

Swarthmore, PA

• Facilitated interdisciplinary lecture series and post-lecture student discussions on migration studies (speakers included Education Professor Dr. Jonathan Rosa, French Profesor Dr. Debrati Sanyal, and Political Science.
• Coordinated a complete migration symposium titled Searching for Sanctuary and featured exhibits from each of four migration courses (exhibits included migrant interviews, a video explaining DACA, and a human rights.
• Constructed portions of English Professor Sangina Patnaik’s human rights lexicon from South Africa’s TRC, which involves close reading testimonies and finding patterns in how people talk about human rights violations.
• Researched and compiled a list of primary human rights law scholars, including but not limited to Hannah Arendt, Kathryn Sikkink, and Judith Butler

State Correctional Institute Of Chester, P.A.

• Founded the State Correctional Institution of Chester’s first Mass Incarceration Think Tank with members both inside and outside the prison
• Tutored students inside prisons in all subjects once a week (for GEDs and English language learning)
• Completed four general workshops on adult education, cultural humility, and tutoring skills
• Coordinated an incarceration lecture series and brought speakers to campus in association with the newly developed Swarthmore Incarceration Project—specifically speakers interested in the challenges of women/nonbinary.

New York, NY

• Worked one-on-one with authors to craft individualized review copy mailing lists
• Attended bi-weekly marketing and transmittal meetings to discuss the status of the books, learning helpful publishing insights including but not limited to specific media contacts for certain genres and types of books
• Coordinated Columbia’s six client presses, which involves scheduling release dates for all summer books
• Developed press releases as well as pitches for possible author interviews
• Coordinated inventive ways to promote books, including but not limited to Tumblr blogs for art books and popular podcast hostings

New York, New York

• Pitched What Would Mrs. Astor Do (by Vanderbilt English Professor Cecelia Tichi), No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing (by University of California Long Beach Sociology Professor Jan Haldipur) and.
• Managed reviewer promotional campaigns to expand the number of author reviews online
• Updated and established lasting book reviewer contacts at academic journals as well as news outlets

Minneapolis, MN

• Completed a reader report every month on the strengths and weaknesses of incoming manuscripts
• Attended bi-monthly Skype calls with the acquisitions team to discuss upcoming company catalogue options, including the goal of uplifting more non-binary-identified authors

Excelsior, MN

• Develop communication skills by serving dining customers.
• Maintain barista skills as well as serving skills.
• Attend wine trainings with a sommelier.

New York, New York

• Assisted in multiple stages of the book production process (acquisitions, proof reading, layout, and publicity), all for titles that maintain multiple definitions of intersectional feminisms
• Proofread and fact-checked Translation as Transhumance (11/14/2017) and Sea Girl (8/15/2017)
• Developed reading guides for Since I Laid My Burden Down (6/13/2017) and August (4/11/2017)
• Coordinated fundraising aspects of the annual gala, including developing inventive social media campaigns and donation games such as an auction for self-care products

Minneapolis, MN

• Edited train-the-trainer documents, including police response to domestic violence trainings (includes the importance of streamlining the questioning process, providing psychological and therapeutic support, and.
• Organized social media for the 2nd Anniversary Event, which featured Gloria Steinem
• Researched and compiled a list of potential grants for GRW fundraising

Plymouth, MN

• Performed general administrative duties including mail distribution and filescanning.
• Collaborated on a project team to consolidate storage units by converting

Bachelor’S Degree, English Literature, Gender And Sexuality Studies, And Peace And Conflict Studies, 3.98

Activities and Societies: Organizing 4 Survivors, Swarthmore's Incarceration Project, The Swarthmore Review Managing Editor, Students for.

High School, 4.46

Activities and Societies: DECA Director of Special Events, Debate Captain, National Honor Society Vice President, Breezes Newspaper.