Daniel J. O'Connell

Daniel O’Connell is the executive director of the Central Valley Partnership, a regional nonprofit organization and progressive network of labor unions, environmental organizations, and community leaders spanning the San Joaquin Valley. Trained as a multidisciplinary ethnographer, he holds an M.S. in International Agricultural Development from University of California Davis and a Ph.D. in Education from Cornell University. His continuing work as a politically engaged scholar is dedicated to achieving social, racial, environmental and economic justice in California.