Tobacco Free Wichita welcomes new staff member, Danielle Ramirez as efforts kick off for the State Fiscal Year 2024 Chronic Disease Risk Reduction grant.

Danielle is a mother of three and has worked in the nonprofit sector in places like Wichita, Lawrence, and Kansas City for fifteen years. Danielle has fifteen years of experience in the nonprofit sector and has led collaborative projects related to substance use prevention, food insecurity, behavioral health, advocacy, youth empowerment, and more. She values equity and believes cultural humility is vital for individual, organizational, and community progress.

Her passion for collaboration has helped build important partnerships locally and across the state. In June 2022 Danielle, along with 30 other Wichita women, released Being Wichita Women a collaborative anthology exploring stories of trauma, adversity, resilience and healing. The project has been so inspiring that she launched her own hybrid publishing business earlier this year, called Quiet Storm Services. The mission of Quiet Storm is to be a creator of books that empower the writer, promotes authentic storytelling, and supports personal and collective growth.

Danielle joins Kim Neufeld and Shelley Rich as Tobacco Control Coordinators for Sedgwick County.