Meaningful media.

Believing we can architect a better world amidst pain. Calling our perceptions of life into question.

Danielle Leard (pronouns: they/she) is a 22-year-old researcher, wordsmith, multimedia artist, and carer for people, specializing as a singer/songwriter musician and slam poet. Currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, they’ve been working in print and digital publishing since mdidle school. Danielle's main mission in every project is to evoke empathy from the audience.

Danielle has pursued and continues to pursue various artistic fields. In addition to her golden trio of music, spoken word, and comedy, she is also skilled and experienced in professional speaking, presenting, film, editing, research, assisting organizing, and photography.

As her life mission statement, Danielle strives to call people's general perceptions of life into question and positively impact the worldviews we're entrenched in.

For more info, visit the about page. Otherwise, feel free to browse the CVs on the different tabs.

The past year’s public projects

February 4, 2023: Performed in a showcase advertising UC Berkeley’s comedy club, Standup @ Cal

November 18, 2022: Performed in UC Berkeley’s first student standup comedy show in the university’s history (under the club Standup @ Cal)

May 1, 2022: Slam poem “Deafened to the Voice I Hoped to Hear” performed at Soulful Open Mic in Santa Ana, CA

March 17, 2022: artistic anaylsis editorial “Perfect Blue: Persona and Veristic Surrealism” (on the 1997 cult classic of the same name) co-authored for The Frida Cinema

February 25, 2022: Slam poem “Hey Mom, Can You Let Me In” implemented into a high school curriculum!

January/February 2022: received Volunteer of the Month title at The Frida Cinema, selecting the film The Last Black Man in San Francisco to be screened to the public

December 29, 2021: Button Poetry, the largest provider of spoken word media, published “Hey Mom, Can You Let Me In” as a Semi-Finalist in the 2020 Button Poetry video contest

Multimedia Visual Art