Daniella Radaelli
Project Lead
Daniella works on design and evaluation projects across the social sector, drawing on her experience in communications, social innovation, advocacy, and campaigning. She is deeply curious about how systems and policies shape people's experiences and is committed to reimagining them to reduce structural inequality.
Daniella brings a relational, community-led approach to complex and ambiguous spaces, with experience working as both a researcher and practitioner. With a culturally sensitive, empathetic, and strengths-based perspective, she is committed to centering people’s voices and experiences in research, design, and evaluation.
At ThirdStory, she has co-designed a family and domestic violence hub model in partnership with the WA State Government and helped codify a young parents’ housing service for a WA provider. She has also contributed to multiple evaluation projects, including assessing four family and domestic violence hubs across WA and evaluating a youth justice advocacy and justice reinvestment body. Daniella is particularly passionate about the role of art, design, and creativity in community building and placemaking, always looking for ways to merge her social innovation expertise with her love of creativity.
Daniella holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s in Social Work and Social Policy. Before joining ThirdStory, she worked across communications and advocacy, most recently as a national campaigner for an Aboriginal-led coalition dedicated to ending incarceration and family violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Alongside her work at ThirdStory, Daniella runs a small business pressing and framing flowers and teaching community workshops.