Danny came to Northwestern from London, U.K., where he worked as a youth educator and program designer.  Before moving to Chicago, as part of his work at Tower Hamlets Summer University (THSU), Danny designed and facilitated Unboxed, a human rights youth exchange program for British and South African teenagers.  Participants were trained and supported to design and implement their own local interventions to tackle different types of discrimination and oppression, including xenophobia, homophobia, and domestic violence.  In 2005, Unboxed received the British Wavemakers Award.

At THSU, Danny worked as a consultant and program designer for Creative Partnerships (CP), a government agency working to promote creativity and arts programs in British schools.  Danny worked with CP on their youth council project, producing and facilitating a series of programs that sought to involve young people as partners in the strengthening of inner-city schools.  Danny also developed and coordinated the THSU Peer Motivator youth leadership program, providing participants - mainly of Bangladeshi origin - with practical community-work training and awarding them with London Open College Network (LOCN) accreditation.

Danny's roots are in the Jewish community, where he worked as Director of Education and Development for the Association of Jewish Sixthformers (AJ6), a youth-led national organization based in London.  Danny oversaw the national peer-leadership curriculum and trained youth workers to lead AJ6's year-round programs, including educational tours to Israel, Eastern-Europe, Southern-Europe, and the American East Coast.  Before working for AJ6, Danny also spent a year as Community Youth Worker for the South Manchester Jewish Youth Trust (SMJYT).