Danelle Go (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Leadership and Innovation program at New York University and a Social Impact Research Fellow. She currently serves as the Assistant Director of Organizational Change and Leadership at the University of Southern California, where she supports master's and doctoral student success while contributing to leadership development, organizational learning, and student-centered change initiatives.

As a proud first-generation daughter of Filipino and Chinese immigrants, Danelle's experiences navigating educational systems have shaped her commitment to expanding opportunity, fostering belonging, and creating environments where individuals and communities can thrive. Drawing on more than a decade of experience across K–12 education, higher education, and nonprofit leadership, she approaches her work through a scholar-practitioner lens grounded in equity, care, and continuous improvement.

Through her research and professional practice, Danelle explores how organizations can better support student success and create conditions that enable people to flourish. Her current scholarship focuses on graduate education, examining how academic advising, institutional support systems, and organizational conditions shape student success, persistence, and degree completion. She is particularly interested in understanding how institutions can better support advisors as key contributors to student success, recognizing both the relational and structural dimensions of the work. Her research explores holistic, equity-centered approaches that strengthen student support, enhance organizational effectiveness, and bridge the gap between research and practice.

Beyond her institutional work, Danelle serves on the Board of Directors for the alpha Kappa Delta Phi Foundation, where she helps advance philanthropic initiatives that empower Asian American and Pacific Islander women through scholarships, mentorship, leadership development, professional growth opportunities, and community investment. Across her professional, research, and community leadership roles, she remains committed to building more responsive, humane, and equitable systems that expand opportunities for current and future generations.