Danielle M. Reiff

Danielle M. Reiff is a peacebuilder, writer, and editor of Overcoming Information Chaos: A Guide to Building Peaceful Communities in the Digital Age. Her writing has appeared in Newsweek and The Peace Guidebook with a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter. As a member of the U.S. diplomatic corps for twenty years, Danielle specialized in supporting democratic transitions and peacebuilding around the world. After retiring, she founded the non-partisan Peacebuilders initiative to promote empathy, dialogue, consultation, and other forms of nonviolence for advancing social change and political reform. Danielle earned a graduate degree in International Relations and Peace from Sciences Po in Paris, France as a member of the first ever cadre of Rotary Peace Fellows. In 2025, she earned an executive certificate in public leadership from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso from 1998-2000. Danielle has been a Baha’i since 1997.