Prior to joining NIJC, Daniel served as an AmeriCorps member at Kentucky Equal Justice Center, where he helped manage a free clinic for immigrant victims of wage theft. In college, he studied in Peru with the School for International Training’s Indigenous Peoples and Globalization program. After graduating, he spent a year as a human rights observer in a northern Ecuadorian farming community plagued by mining conflict. Daniel holds a BA in anthropology and Spanish from DePauw University.