Danielle Elliot

Danielle Elliot is a documentarian and writer. She focuses on character-driven narratives that seek to explain cultural phenomena. Her films, features, and series have appeared on HBO, ESPN, FX, iHeart, Audible, NBC, and more.

After earning a master of arts degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, she became science editor at CBSNews.com and began writing long-form features for The Atlantic, the New York Times, National Geographic, Nautilus, Grantland, Popular Mechanics, and others. She also works with documentary filmmakers to develop and structure films and series and with Fortune 100 brands to direct and produce docu-style campaigns.

She is the host of the Understood podcast series Climbing the Walls.