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DaniMation Entertainment, which
she started at age 14, is a cloud-based
autism talent development company
that produces original and contract
animation, illustration, and graphic
arts. She has premiered nine animated
short films at San Diego Comic-Con
International over the past seven years,
including a music video that includes
the voices of Joe Mantegna, Tom
Kenny (Sponge Bob), Debi Derrberry
(Jimmy Neutron), among others. Her
company has also expanded into the
United Kingdom in the last couple of
years.
Now age 25, Dani has earned a
Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts (Magna
Cum Laude) and a Master’s Degree
in Business Administration in Global
Strategy and Leadership (Summa Cum
Laude) from Woodbury University, and
is currently working on her PhD!
She is a social entrepreneur
who has combined her six passions
(Autism Advocacy, Public Speaking,
Animation, Illustration, Teaching
animation to young adults on the
spectrum, and Fine & Visual Arts) in
the hopes of inspiring others on the
autism spectrum and other related
disabilities to follow their dreams!
“I aspire to be the Temple Grandin
of my generation”, Dani states in her
Facebook page, “working to change
the world’s perception of autism
and demonstrating all of the special
abilities that people with autism have,
while striving for acceptance and
integration within society.”
Dani’s goal is to reduce the grim
autism unemployment numbers (90%
are unemployed or under employed per
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).
She does that by empowering youth
with animation skills through her
classes and jobs. Dani has taught
over 2000 youth with autism and
other disabilities at Joey Travolta’s
Inclusion Films summer
boot camps and via her
company’s classes. Her
work has been featured in
the LA Times and other
publications in the United
States, as well as by the
BBC’s Spotlight Evening
News in the United
Kingdom.
Her list of speaking
and special appearance
engagements includes
being a keynote speaker
at conferences in Ohio,
Alaska and several other
states.
Dani continues to
teach at Joey Travolta’s
summer camps, but she
also conducts her own camps since
2012 including the Arts4All Florida
camp in Tampa and the Spectrum
Laboratory in Los Angeles.
As with all of us, the pandemic has
affected everything that Dani and her
company do, but, she did not allow for
it to totally stop her and in May 2020,
she opened “DaniAcademy” to teach
Virtual animation classes!
For her contributions to the Autism
community, Dani has been recognized
as the First American with Autism
honored at the Anna Kennedy “Wear it
for Autism” fashion show in London,
England, and the Temple Grandin
Award from Future Horizons.
Like Temple Grandin and other
well-known individuals with autism,
Dani is a blessing to our nation at
large and to the autism community
especially. Like she says “I am more
than just my autism diagnosis”, indeed
she is, because she not only advocates
for persons with autism via her
speaking engagements, interviews and
other means, but she has a personal
mission to LEAD THE WAY via
her company’s summer camps and
employing individuals with autism.
During this April Autism Awareness
Month, Conexion Media Group salutes
Dani Bowman for her achievements
and her passion to help those affected
by Autism. She is indeed the epitome
of a caring human being that is
making a difference in the lives of
thousands….and she is just getting
started!
For more information about
Dani, go to: DaniBowman.com”,
DaniMationEntertainment.com,
or her blog, Journeys by Dani
Bowman. You may also contact
her for speaking engagements via
danibowman9@gmail.com.
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