Danielle Collins Email & Phone Number

Danielle is the Director of Arts, Media, & Entertainment for Inspire EDU. Formerly, she was the chair of the Music Media Entertainment Technology Department at the Academy for the Performing Arts at Huntington Beach High School where she taught Popular Music Production. She serves on the board for the CA Department of Education Career Technical Education Arts Media Entertainment, which hosts the AME institute for Career Tech Arts teachers in Burbank. Danielle is also the President and co-founder of Pulse Percussion, a six-time world champion percussive arts group with over a dozen partners and sponsors. Pulse hosts three annual clinics, fundraising campaigns, and fields three performing groups. Pulse has been nationally recognized numerous times, most recently on America’s Got Talent in fall of 2023. She has taught music education at several California State Universities and previously worked for the Los Angeles County Office of Education as a contract consultant. She has served on the board of California Band Directors Association as the Marketing and DEI Director and as the Innovations Chair for the CA Music Educators Association. Danielle was named one of Yamaha’s 40 Under 40 in 2022 and was awarded a NAfME Grant in 2018 for her work in Music Education.