Danielle Greene-Bell

Danielle Greene-Bell is chief engagement officer for Richmond Public Schools, where she collaborates with families and community members to advance educational equity. She previously served as chief of staff for the Richmond Resilience Initiative and as the first People Operations hire for Coactive AI in Silicon Valley. A third-generation Richmond Public Schools educator, Greene-Bell began her career through the Richmond Teacher Residency Program. Both a researcher and former middle school teacher, her work focuses on access pathways, learner development, and the structural and social contexts of education for African American students. Centering on African American resistances to linguistic, cultural, and physical Black displacement and dispossession in schools, she has primarily explored teaching cultures and language practices within K–12 public schools serving majority African American students, faculty, and staff. Her scholarship has been published in Urban Education, Sociology of Education, and Harvard Educational Review. Greene-Bell earned her MT from Virginia Commonwealth University and a PhD in curriculum studies and teacher education from Stanford University.

updated 2025