Dani is a doctoral student in the department of Theory and Practice in Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has completed both her B.A and M.Ed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Prior to returning to graduate school Dani was a secondary teacher in Clark County, Nevada. Dani specializes in qualitative methodologies and her research interests focus on Indigenous language revitalization models and the importance of storytelling as pedagogy.