In celebration of Pride Month, join us for an exploration of queer history through art and storytelling with Danielle Quesenberry. 

Danielle Quesenberry is a facilitator, scholar, and lesbian. She’s been hosting shared events for around 10 years. A proud Middle Georgia State Knight, Danielle began her hosting career by founding and directing Lost Keys Literary Festival - with the goal of providing platforms for the often overlooked diverse storytellers of the rural south community in which she lived. With this work, United Way offered her a position assisting with their literacy programming - Danielle learned how to facilitate conversations around vulnerable communities. From United Way, Danielle joined the staff at Georgia Equality, where she studied grassroots organizing, advocacy, and nonviolent de-escalation techniques.

From a degree focused on the importance and understanding of storytelling - to working with HIV advocates - Danielle has facilitated shared dialogue experiences for numerous topics and audiences.

She does this work because she believes in the power of storytelling. She grew up in a very, very small town in south Georgia. It was through stories that she pulled herself away from a single thread of narrative that was extremely harmful for her existence as a queer girl and then woman. She believes that through shared structured dialogue in safe spaces, diverse groups of people can feel empowered to bring their stories to create awareness, understanding, and most importantly, behavior change to the status quo.