Biography
Dãnia serves as Director of Land Retention and Advocacy at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund the largest and oldest cooperatively-owned organization whose membership includes black farmers, landowners and cooperatives where she leads service delivery of the Regional Heirs Property & Mediation Center. After double concentrating in Community Health and Africana Studies at Brown University, she earned her J.D. at University of Virginia School of Law. Dãnia began her legal career as a Skadden Fellow at the NCABL Land Loss Prevention Project implementing a project she designed which provided community education and estate planning services to improve Black farmers' access to legal services in the rural South. Dãnia currently serves on the boards of the Socially Disadvantaged Farmer & Rancher Policy Center at Alcorn State University, Farmers Legal Action Group and Southern Rural Development Center. She is also the proud mom of an amazing 8-year-old!