Daniel Forkkio

Chief Executive Officer

Daniel K. Forkkio is the Chief Executive Officer of Represent Justice, a national nonprofit that builds the narrative power of communities through film and supports storytelling campaigns to engage new audiences across the country, inspiring empathy, human dignity, and public action for legal system reform. With over sixteen years of prior experience in nonprofit and advocacy work, Daniel leads the organization’s social impact efforts through strategic audience and community engagement as well as partnerships. Over the past 5 years, Represent Justice has used the power of storytelling to reach millions of people with firsthand stories about the legal system, generating hundreds of thousands of advocacy actions, building out an engaged audience of over 200,000 supporters, and building up the visibility and influence of dozens of system-impacted movement leaders and organizations.

Prior to joining Represent Justice, Daniel served as the Fulfillment Fund’s CFO and COO where he provided leadership and oversight to the organization’s mission to make college a reality for students growing up in educationally and economically under-resourced communities. Daniel has also worked for The Raben Group in Washington D.C. and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a multi-billion dollar conservation grant maker, notably aiding in the development and design of the reporting infrastructure for a variety of major funding sources, including awarded payments from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Daniel serves on the board of directors of Guns Down America, a national gun violence prevention group, as well as New Rising Ventures, a c3 that supports start-up entrepreneurs and activists using technology innovation to transform democracy.

Daniel is a native of the DMV and holds both an undergraduate degree and an MBA from the University of Maryland, University College.