Daranee is an educator, researcher-practitioner, and daughter of Thai-Chinese-Indonesian immigrants. As Managing Director of Programs at Moonshot edVentures, she leads the strategy, design, implementation, and evaluation of Moonshot’s innovative programming for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ education leaders. She is a Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) Nonprofit Impact Fellowship Graduate, a board member of Colorado Dragon Boat, and serves on the City & County of Denver’s Asian American Pacific Islander Commission. Daranee holds an MA in Educational Policy & Practice from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is currently a doctoral student in the Leadership for Educational Equity program at the University of Colorado Denver with a focus on culturally responsive research and evaluation methods in education.