Danielle English

Danielle English is a harm reductionist and proud disabled woman that comes with a perspective and background of lived and living experience, as well as local and grassroots activism and outreach. Danielle advocates on the Alberta Community Council on HIV, runs her own outreach collective, is a Peer Navigator, co created a psychosis tool kit to be used by front line staff, and runs warming stations all over Alberta. Some highlights of her activism career include: Community of Practice on Psychosis from a lived perspective with The Doctor Peter Centre, round tables with MLAs, Community of Practices on warming stations and make shift overdose prevention sites, creator of wellness plans for front line staff, The Curbside Philosophy Project, and naloxone training facilitation. She believes in patient centered health care, the power of community care, and mutual aid over charity. Danielle advocates fiercely for the inclusion of living experience when shaping policy and fighting for change: “nothing about us without us!"