Peace Talks Podcast
Dani Coke Balfour: creative justice
about
Dani Coke Balfour is an artist, advocate, speaker, and entrepreneur. She’s the founder of Oh Happy Dani, an illustration-based educational platform that uses artwork and resources to make complex ideas surrounding racial justice more accessible for the everyday advocate.
Dani works to inspire her community of over half a million people across social media to do good daily, right where they are. She’s also the author of “A Heart on Fire: 100 Meditations on Loving Your Neighbors Well.”
Whether working with brands, speaking in front of audiences, or running her business, Dani hopes to inspire others to embody their values and live a life of sustainable activism by using what they have to impact the world around them.
Quotable
“I put the phrases seek justice and stay hopeful together. I really wanted to illustrate the fact that I value justice. And I also feel as though if we don’t have hope, we’re not going to make it. I personally don’t believe that hopelessness is something that you can survive. And so I want to weave that into everything I do. So whether it’s a sticker in my shop or a post online that’s speaking to some [serious] issue, I always want to trace back to hope. We have seen in history how people like us have overcome despite these terrible odds and keep that at the forefront because doom scrolling is real. Believing that all is lost is a very real feeling and I want to do what I can to kind of push against that.”