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Brigitte Daniel is a digital access advocate with experience in telecommunications and social entrepreneurship, she is a vocal advocate for gender and cultural diversity in the tech industry.

In May 2006, she became the executive vice president of Wilco Electronic Systems, a small telecommunications firm founded in 1977 by her father that has primarily done installations for the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Wilco is one of the last remaining African-American owned cable operators in the Nation and specialized in providing technology access to under-served communities.

In that role, she became a frequent speaker on digital divide and web literacy issues, particularly in the Philadelphia technology community. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Spelman College in1999 with degrees in History, Women's Studies, and Business Management and received her Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law School in 2002 and was admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania in 2004.  She currently serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Theatre Company's new Young Friends Executive Committee and also serves as a Board Director of the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition (GPUAC) and is on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia People's Emergency Center (PEC). She was part of the 2011 class of Eisenhower Fellows. Read more from her on [https://twitter.com/brigittedaniel Twitter].