In 2013, Daniella entered the world of cooperatives when she joined Home Green Home SF, a cooperative of Latina women who have provided ecological cleaning services in San Francisco since 2009. In this cooperative, she served as the leader of the Finance and Management Committee, at the same time that she participated in different committees until January of this year. She is currently their external consultant. 

As a consultant, during these last 3 years, Daniella works for various cooperatives in the formation stage and organizations such as Prospera and Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), where she has offered different workshops and has co-elaborated and co-facilitated with Prospera the complete program of 8 sessions named “Explora”, which focuses on introducing Latina entrepreneurs to the cooperative business model. At Prospera, she is currently also part of the Governance Committee of the Resilience Revolving Fund for the participants of the programs of said organization.

“The idea of telling children it’s okay to say no and set personal boundaries– it’s so beautiful. I think that reaching out to lower-income, little girls, that they are okay to say no is so beautiful. I don’t think we teach the children enough to say ‘no’ in social situations where they feel more pressured because they’re your family members, close friends or any adults in your life that you can’t tell them whether or not you feel comfortable. 

Self-accountability and especially teaching the children to set their own boundaries is so important. For example, in Latin America, individuals lack much of holding individual accountability, rather, it’s more about just following orders sometimes. They don’t teach you to think, rather they teach you to just memorize and act on it. So that’s really restraining in terms of figuring out what you want to do, and I think a big part of losing that part about yourself. 

There’s a lot of abuse that comes from not knowing, or not being taught how to say no and set those boundaries properly; we need to teach [the children] your uncle can’t ask that for example, they can’t force you to do that, and you are 100% allowed to simply tell them no, and have autonomy over yourself.”