Vanessa Priya Daniel
@vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social
Queer, Feminist, Organizer, Writer, Mom.
Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone about Winning, Random House, March 2025. Order it today: https://www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/books
Founder of Groundswell Fund & Action Fund.
Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone about Winning, Random House, March 2025. Order it today: https://www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/books
Founder of Groundswell Fund & Action Fund.
Pinned
It's publication day for Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning!
Unrig the Game is a resource that will support everyone who is committed to social justice to access our full strength in these troubled times.
www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/books
Unrig the Game is a resource that will support everyone who is committed to social justice to access our full strength in these troubled times.
www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/books
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My Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act establishes real standards for immigrant detention and phases out for-profit facilities.
This corrupt administration shouldn’t be allowed to funnel billions of dollars to private prisons companies who donated millions to Trump’s campaign.
This corrupt administration shouldn’t be allowed to funnel billions of dollars to private prisons companies who donated millions to Trump’s campaign.
December 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
My Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act establishes real standards for immigrant detention and phases out for-profit facilities.
This corrupt administration shouldn’t be allowed to funnel billions of dollars to private prisons companies who donated millions to Trump’s campaign.
This corrupt administration shouldn’t be allowed to funnel billions of dollars to private prisons companies who donated millions to Trump’s campaign.
SEATTLE! Today, Dec 4.
There’s still time to grab your tickets.
“Reimagine to Win.
Vanessa Priya Daniel joins Social Venture Partners Seattle to talk about how philanthropy can “unrig the game” by centering women of color leaders and resourcing community power.”
svpseattle.org/event/reimag...
There’s still time to grab your tickets.
“Reimagine to Win.
Vanessa Priya Daniel joins Social Venture Partners Seattle to talk about how philanthropy can “unrig the game” by centering women of color leaders and resourcing community power.”
svpseattle.org/event/reimag...
Reimagine to Win: Unrig the Game with Vanessa Daniel
Join SVP Seattle on December 4, 2025, for an inspiring evening with author and activist Vanessa Daniel, founder of Groundswell Fund. Drawing from her book Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach...
svpseattle.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
SEATTLE! Today, Dec 4.
There’s still time to grab your tickets.
“Reimagine to Win.
Vanessa Priya Daniel joins Social Venture Partners Seattle to talk about how philanthropy can “unrig the game” by centering women of color leaders and resourcing community power.”
svpseattle.org/event/reimag...
There’s still time to grab your tickets.
“Reimagine to Win.
Vanessa Priya Daniel joins Social Venture Partners Seattle to talk about how philanthropy can “unrig the game” by centering women of color leaders and resourcing community power.”
svpseattle.org/event/reimag...
A reminder that strategy is essential, tactics are key, but authentic connections and relationships that brim with kindness and heart are how we keep our candles lit.
From my latest newsletter, subscribe for free to read it in full: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter
From my latest newsletter, subscribe for free to read it in full: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A reminder that strategy is essential, tactics are key, but authentic connections and relationships that brim with kindness and heart are how we keep our candles lit.
From my latest newsletter, subscribe for free to read it in full: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter
From my latest newsletter, subscribe for free to read it in full: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter
Reposted by Vanessa Priya Daniel
Our tribal ID’s validity depends entirely on the person we’re presenting it to. My attempting to use it has failed many times because of the lack of knowledge people in government have about it. After this, I expect the feds to try to further delegitimize it.
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Our tribal ID’s validity depends entirely on the person we’re presenting it to. My attempting to use it has failed many times because of the lack of knowledge people in government have about it. After this, I expect the feds to try to further delegitimize it.
Five Things Funders and Donors Can Do Right Now
Tips from my last newsletter:
1• Flank the most vulnerable and those who stand with them.
2• Move as much money as you can NOW.
3• Remove the red tape.
4• Plan all the contingencies for a tighter regulatory environment.
5• Use your full power.
Tips from my last newsletter:
1• Flank the most vulnerable and those who stand with them.
2• Move as much money as you can NOW.
3• Remove the red tape.
4• Plan all the contingencies for a tighter regulatory environment.
5• Use your full power.
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Five Things Funders and Donors Can Do Right Now
Tips from my last newsletter:
1• Flank the most vulnerable and those who stand with them.
2• Move as much money as you can NOW.
3• Remove the red tape.
4• Plan all the contingencies for a tighter regulatory environment.
5• Use your full power.
Tips from my last newsletter:
1• Flank the most vulnerable and those who stand with them.
2• Move as much money as you can NOW.
3• Remove the red tape.
4• Plan all the contingencies for a tighter regulatory environment.
5• Use your full power.
“Want to support trans people?
Watch HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY, a critically important documentary that follows ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio as he battles at the steps of the Supreme Court for trans rights.”
Available to watch at home for one week only: bit.ly/watch-hs
Watch HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY, a critically important documentary that follows ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio as he battles at the steps of the Supreme Court for trans rights.”
Available to watch at home for one week only: bit.ly/watch-hs
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“Want to support trans people?
Watch HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY, a critically important documentary that follows ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio as he battles at the steps of the Supreme Court for trans rights.”
Available to watch at home for one week only: bit.ly/watch-hs
Watch HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY, a critically important documentary that follows ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio as he battles at the steps of the Supreme Court for trans rights.”
Available to watch at home for one week only: bit.ly/watch-hs
Reposted by Vanessa Priya Daniel
Progressive on the edge of a win in Seattle mayor race
Progressive on the edge of a win in Seattle mayor race
Katie Wilson pulled ahead of a moderate Democrat in a campaign that focused on the cost of living in one of America’s most-expensive cities.
dlvr.it
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Progressive on the edge of a win in Seattle mayor race
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Unrig the Game by @vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social may be the most consequential book about nonprofits and I haven’t even read it yet. So many people telling me how accurately it describes past and current experiences of leaders of color, I have a copy but am hesitant to read about the shared trauma.
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Unrig the Game by @vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social may be the most consequential book about nonprofits and I haven’t even read it yet. So many people telling me how accurately it describes past and current experiences of leaders of color, I have a copy but am hesitant to read about the shared trauma.
Whatever would we do without the strategic brilliance of Democrats stepping in between Republicans and the consequences of their actions?
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Whatever would we do without the strategic brilliance of Democrats stepping in between Republicans and the consequences of their actions?
The majority of the country, across the political spectrum, knows that the status quo has been failing them miserably and is willing to shake things up, throw open the windows and the doors, and even walk outside into the sunlight of freedom.
Subscribe to read: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter
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November 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The majority of the country, across the political spectrum, knows that the status quo has been failing them miserably and is willing to shake things up, throw open the windows and the doors, and even walk outside into the sunlight of freedom.
Subscribe to read: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter
Subscribe to read: www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter
New Haven, Connecticut: See you next week!
“Vanessa Priya Daniel is the keynote speaker for the Community Fund for Women & Girls 30th Anniversary Celebration”
Get your tickets:
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“Vanessa Priya Daniel is the keynote speaker for the Community Fund for Women & Girls 30th Anniversary Celebration”
Get your tickets:
manyvoicesonevision.org/vision-in-ac...
Vision In Action – The Community Fund for Women & Girls
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November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
New Haven, Connecticut: See you next week!
“Vanessa Priya Daniel is the keynote speaker for the Community Fund for Women & Girls 30th Anniversary Celebration”
Get your tickets:
manyvoicesonevision.org/vision-in-ac...
“Vanessa Priya Daniel is the keynote speaker for the Community Fund for Women & Girls 30th Anniversary Celebration”
Get your tickets:
manyvoicesonevision.org/vision-in-ac...
My next newsletter will be out soon, subscribe for free:
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How we KEEP GOING with courage despite fear and exhaustion; ways to out-organize authoritarians and those in our own ranks who would have us capitulate to them; what funders and donors can do, and more!
www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter
How we KEEP GOING with courage despite fear and exhaustion; ways to out-organize authoritarians and those in our own ranks who would have us capitulate to them; what funders and donors can do, and more!
NEWSLETTER — Vanessa Daniel
www.vanessapriyadaniel.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
My next newsletter will be out soon, subscribe for free:
www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter
How we KEEP GOING with courage despite fear and exhaustion; ways to out-organize authoritarians and those in our own ranks who would have us capitulate to them; what funders and donors can do, and more!
www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/newsletter
How we KEEP GOING with courage despite fear and exhaustion; ways to out-organize authoritarians and those in our own ranks who would have us capitulate to them; what funders and donors can do, and more!
Reposted by Vanessa Priya Daniel
The game isn’t fair AND we can play differently.
@vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social gave us THE playbook in Unrig the Game. This book is for anyone ready to shift our power structures by enhancing their own leadership skills.
☕ Grab a cup and read on @nwprogressive.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/unrigthegame
@vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social gave us THE playbook in Unrig the Game. This book is for anyone ready to shift our power structures by enhancing their own leadership skills.
☕ Grab a cup and read on @nwprogressive.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/unrigthegame
Book Review: Vanessa Priya Daniel tells all on how the shots are called in her 2025 debut “Unrig the Game" - NPI's Cascadia Advocate
Read NPI's review of Vanessa Priya Daniel's first book, which its publisher calls "a much-needed playbook to supporting and retaining women of color in leadership roles to create lasting change in the...
nwprogressive.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The game isn’t fair AND we can play differently.
@vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social gave us THE playbook in Unrig the Game. This book is for anyone ready to shift our power structures by enhancing their own leadership skills.
☕ Grab a cup and read on @nwprogressive.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/unrigthegame
@vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social gave us THE playbook in Unrig the Game. This book is for anyone ready to shift our power structures by enhancing their own leadership skills.
☕ Grab a cup and read on @nwprogressive.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/unrigthegame
My copy of Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People: An Organize the Rich Anthology just arrived.
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I can’t wait to dig in on this book edited by movement colleagues Michael Gast, Marian Moore & Alex T. Tom.
Have you ordered yours? itascabooks.com/products/fre...
I can’t wait to dig in on this book edited by movement colleagues Michael Gast, Marian Moore & Alex T. Tom.
October 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My copy of Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People: An Organize the Rich Anthology just arrived.
Have you ordered yours? itascabooks.com/products/fre...
I can’t wait to dig in on this book edited by movement colleagues Michael Gast, Marian Moore & Alex T. Tom.
Have you ordered yours? itascabooks.com/products/fre...
I can’t wait to dig in on this book edited by movement colleagues Michael Gast, Marian Moore & Alex T. Tom.
Support the western Alaska relief effort: alaskacf.org/western-alas...
Western Alaska Communities Unite to Establish Disaster Response Fund Following Recent Storms - Alaska Community Foundation
In response to recent severe storms, including Typhoon Halong, that devastated Alaska’s western coast, local …
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October 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Support the western Alaska relief effort: alaskacf.org/western-alas...
Thank you 🙏🏽
Every movement worker should read Unrig the Game by @vanessapriyadaniel.bsky.social. Leaders will feel seen; hopefully team members will see how they can also cause harm. Thank you, Vanessa, for putting this all into (beautiful, vindicating) words.
October 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Thank you 🙏🏽
Get your copy of Reimagining Nonprofits and Philanthropy: Unlocking the Full Potential of a Vital and Complex Sector!
A book packed with helpful insights from the wonderful Vu Le @nonprofitaf.bsky.social
A book packed with helpful insights from the wonderful Vu Le @nonprofitaf.bsky.social
BOOK!!
Vu's new book will be coming out on October 14th, 2025. Pre-order your copies at Elliott Bay Book Company, Barnes and Nobles, Bookshop, or Amazon. If you're in the UK, use this version of Bookshop. If...
www.nonprofitaf.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Get your copy of Reimagining Nonprofits and Philanthropy: Unlocking the Full Potential of a Vital and Complex Sector!
A book packed with helpful insights from the wonderful Vu Le @nonprofitaf.bsky.social
A book packed with helpful insights from the wonderful Vu Le @nonprofitaf.bsky.social
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Demanding an end to Italy’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, half a million people abandoned their workplaces, schools, and universities. Niccolò Barca writes that they were inspired by a slogan: “Blocchiamo tutto.” (“Let’s block everything.”) www.thenation.com/article/worl...
How Italy’s Workers Shut Their Country Down For Gaza
Hundreds of thousands blocked ports and roadways to demand an end to military collaboration with Israel.
www.thenation.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Demanding an end to Italy’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, half a million people abandoned their workplaces, schools, and universities. Niccolò Barca writes that they were inspired by a slogan: “Blocchiamo tutto.” (“Let’s block everything.”) www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Reposted by Vanessa Priya Daniel
This’s a long one.
TLDR: What needs to be done requires us to get more comfortable w/contradictions & complexity, but doing the right thing, loving your neighbor through your actions, taking collective action to build & sustain our power, & reveal & make evil uncomfortable, is pretty damn simple.
TLDR: What needs to be done requires us to get more comfortable w/contradictions & complexity, but doing the right thing, loving your neighbor through your actions, taking collective action to build & sustain our power, & reveal & make evil uncomfortable, is pretty damn simple.
August 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This’s a long one.
TLDR: What needs to be done requires us to get more comfortable w/contradictions & complexity, but doing the right thing, loving your neighbor through your actions, taking collective action to build & sustain our power, & reveal & make evil uncomfortable, is pretty damn simple.
TLDR: What needs to be done requires us to get more comfortable w/contradictions & complexity, but doing the right thing, loving your neighbor through your actions, taking collective action to build & sustain our power, & reveal & make evil uncomfortable, is pretty damn simple.
Reposted by Vanessa Priya Daniel
Y’all seen it yet?…
🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18
Millions of our people took to the streets in June.
As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on October 18 for a nationwide day of resistance.
Let’s. Go.
#NoKings
#NoKingsDay
#nokingsinamerica
#nokingsprotest
🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18
Millions of our people took to the streets in June.
As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on October 18 for a nationwide day of resistance.
Let’s. Go.
#NoKings
#NoKingsDay
#nokingsinamerica
#nokingsprotest
September 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Y’all seen it yet?…
🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18
Millions of our people took to the streets in June.
As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on October 18 for a nationwide day of resistance.
Let’s. Go.
#NoKings
#NoKingsDay
#nokingsinamerica
#nokingsprotest
🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18
Millions of our people took to the streets in June.
As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on October 18 for a nationwide day of resistance.
Let’s. Go.
#NoKings
#NoKingsDay
#nokingsinamerica
#nokingsprotest
Reposted by Vanessa Priya Daniel
Today's column for @seattletimes.com: "But for many others, Katrina affirmed what they already knew: The color of your skin and the size of your bank account determined whether you could flee or were left to die, or whether you could rebuild or were displaced." #katrina
20 years after Katrina, we’re less prepared for disaster than ever
Two decades after a trip to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, columnist Naomi Ishisaka sounds an alarm about the inadequacy of disaster preparedness in the U.S.
www.seattletimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today's column for @seattletimes.com: "But for many others, Katrina affirmed what they already knew: The color of your skin and the size of your bank account determined whether you could flee or were left to die, or whether you could rebuild or were displaced." #katrina
Repost from @joyannreid.bsky.social:
On this #laborday ... a note on whose labor #maga and #trump have made clear is unwanted: #blackwomen ….. because they know that the vast majority of us will never take the knee or kiss the ring.
Repost from @nytimes
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
On this #laborday ... a note on whose labor #maga and #trump have made clear is unwanted: #blackwomen ….. because they know that the vast majority of us will never take the knee or kiss the ring.
Repost from @nytimes
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Repost from @joyannreid.bsky.social:
On this #laborday ... a note on whose labor #maga and #trump have made clear is unwanted: #blackwomen ….. because they know that the vast majority of us will never take the knee or kiss the ring.
Repost from @nytimes
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
On this #laborday ... a note on whose labor #maga and #trump have made clear is unwanted: #blackwomen ….. because they know that the vast majority of us will never take the knee or kiss the ring.
Repost from @nytimes
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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Campaigning for president, Donald Trump assured workers he would fight for them, write Robert L. Borosage and Sara Steffens. But ahead of Labor Day weekend, it is worth summarizing how extensive his assault on labor has been in his first months in office.
Trump's War on Workers
Buried beneath the bluster is a systematic assault on labor.
www.thenation.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Campaigning for president, Donald Trump assured workers he would fight for them, write Robert L. Borosage and Sara Steffens. But ahead of Labor Day weekend, it is worth summarizing how extensive his assault on labor has been in his first months in office.
Read this for a breath of fresh air from my friend Gloria Walton.
We have everything we need if we would only lean into it.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...
We have everything we need if we would only lean into it.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...
Roll up Your Sleeves for Climate Resilience Summer | Common Dreams
These are efforts that we can all join in and support, becoming part of the solution and adding to the abundance in our own communities.
www.commondreams.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Read this for a breath of fresh air from my friend Gloria Walton.
We have everything we need if we would only lean into it.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...
We have everything we need if we would only lean into it.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/clim...