Danielle Festa

Danielle Festa is currently serving as the Engineering Chief of Staff and Systems Engineer at Saronic Technologies since October 2022. Previously, Danielle was a Systems Engineer at Terradepth from January 2022 to August 2022 and an X-Force Fellow at the National Security Innovation Network during the summer of 2021. In addition, Danielle was the Chair of the Surfrider Foundation chapter at the University of Southern California, overseeing various initiatives from April 2018 to May 2020, and worked as a Technology Assistant at USC Annenberg TechOps managing digital technology for lectures and events from September 2018 to November 2019. Danielle's earlier experience includes serving as an Administrative Assistant for the Alliance For A Living Ocean in the summer of 2017. Danielle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Southern California, awarded in 2020.