Danielle Ponder

Singer & Songwriter, Public Defender & TedX Speaker

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Rochester, NY, USA
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Danielle Ponder Biography

Bravery can take many forms. For Danielle Ponder it took the shape of a leap of faith: leaving her successful day job working in the public defender’s office in her hometown of Rochester to devote herself full-time to sharing her powerful voice with the world.

The singer-songwriter’s mesmerizing eight song debut Some of Us Are Brave reinforces that her faith was not misplaced, and her leap has been rewarded with a safe landing.

Written and recorded over three years, the album is a refreshingly original, shiver-inducing mix of pop, R&B, blues, rock, and moody trip-hop topped by Ponder’s celestial voice— an instrument that can plumb melancholy depths with a heartsick murmur and scrape the sky with hurricane force wails.

The sixth of seven children, Ponder had always been musical but chose to pursue a career in law after her brother received a 20-year sentence due to a “three strikes” law. But even as she became a tireless advocate for justice in her community—first as a public defender and later as a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer in that same office—the music was never far from her heart as she played in bands and wrote songs, first between classes, then between cases.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/17/2024.

Danielle Ponder Videos

  • What music can teach us about justice | Danielle Ponder | TEDxRochester
    As a public defender, it wasn't unusual for Danielle to represent 50 people in one day. As a soul singer, she's performed everywhere from Poland to...

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