He has 10 years’ experience built on immigration legal filings, housing law mediation, policy statute analysis, legal research and writing, managing large dockets of time sensitive projects, helping pass state and city legislation, directing and leading organizational development and funding from state, federal, and private grants.

Further, he pursued post-baccalaureate education earning the applicable paralegal skills needed to help in complex immigration legal matters and of those of civil procedure.

Daniel is most proud of his ability to call Chicago home.

A transplant from the near west suburb Oak Park, Daniel moved to his first studio on the edge of the Edgewater neighborhood while attending Loyola University Chicago in 2005. He also feels very lucky to know family, friends, and community members across the 77 community areas of the city. Daniel enjoys challenging his growing ability to traverse the cityscape without any GPS assistance.

He doesn’t talk about any of it too much, but if you happen to relate to his repertoire of broadway musicals performed in high school, the conversation might go on for a while.

Around that same time, the time of the high school musicals, Daniel rebuilt a large 2000’s desktop computer with a small bin of Legos and got it running from inside a gym shoe box. After being called in for three interviews, Apple Computer Inc. rejected his application for employment when the lead technician realized Daniel was not yet 18 years old.

Daniel never mentions that he had always wanted to be a pilot, and that one time when he was on a glider tour over Oʻahu: the pilot asked Daniel if he wanted to take control of the plane. Daniel was hoping for this. He took hold of the stick and pushed forward a bit, tilting the motor-less plane’s nose toward the hills. The airspeed indicator began to rise as the protege and pilot dove. That is when Daniel pulled the yoke back towards his left hip while he pushed the yaw control forward with his right foot. The motor-less plane climbed again, banked in mid-air, and fell again like a roller coaster. He leveled the glider then and balanced out its roll to simply let it soar. That was pretty good, the pilot said. Where’d ya learn that? Books was the reply, Books and video games.

Incidentally, Daniel scores very well in global online flight simulator competitions.  He will talk about that, if asked.

Food he’s eaten once but only once: crickets tempura, outside of a floating market in Bangkok, Thailand.

A movie he’s watched over-and-over: Star Wars – – all of them…

If he could time-travel to any time, it would be:  breakfast time.

He was elected by his communtiy to serve on the Local School Council board of Disney Magnet Elementary in Uptown where he is serving his second elected term.

Daniel is pretty touched that you took the time to read this. Thanks,