Danielle De La Fuente is the founder and CEO of the Amal Alliance, a non-governmental nonprofit organization that provides displaced and disenfranchised children worldwide with social development programs that help cope with the invisible scars of trauma, and the learning fundamentals that guarantee them future opportunities to succeed. Danielle is a passionate advocate for childrens' rights to education and to play. She has vast experience in peacebuilding and diplomatic efforts stemming from her work at the US Department of Defense and multiple Embassies. Bridging policy and practice. Danielle also sits on the Advisory Board of Boston University's Global Development Policy Center, a G20Y Committee, the Steering Committee of Karanga: The Global Alliance for Social Emotional Learning, and forms part of numerous international coalitions and UN task teams for early childhood development and inclusive education. Her work has received many accolades including winning UNHCR's Humanitarian Education Accelerator COVID-19 Challenge, mEducation Alliance's Top 3 Nominee for 2020's Crisis and Conflict Response, and HundED's Holistic Education Challenge. Danielle's own background is rich in culture as she was born in San Diego to immigrant parents from Mexico and Iran, is multilingual, and has lived in four countries. She obtained her M.Litt. in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and her B.A. in International Relations from Boston University's Pardee School of Global Affairs.