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Dr. Patricia Danaher, MA, iMBA

Dr. Patricia Danaher is an Irish-born writer, journalist, editor, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. She grew up near the Shannon Estuary in Glin, County Limerick on the West Coast of Ireland.She studied journalism at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Rathmines, Dublin (then known as the College of Commerce), from 1984-86 and later completed a BA in Journalism there. Upon graduation she worked for The Evening Press and The Irish Press in Dublin before joining the national broadcaster RTE as a reporter (1986-1990).  

Danaher spent a year traveling and working in Thailand as a freelance journalist and English teacher. She then moved to Osaka, Japan (March 1991-March 1993), to study Zen Buddhism, the Japanese language, and ritual. She taught English at Linguarama in Osaka and worked as a DJ at the national radio station, Osaka Usen. In 1993, she moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, enrolling at the Universidad de Buenos Aires for two years, to study the Spanish language and Latin American literature. While there she worked as a freelance journalist at the Buenos Aires Herald.

Returning to Ireland in 1995, Danaher was hired as a radio producer at RTE, working in the Arts and also producing many current affairs programs. In 1996 she presented a radio series called Just Supposing, which began broadcasting on June 24,1996 .She was also a presenter on a TV arts show called Under Cover. She wrote and directed her first radio play, The Long Way Round, which was broadcast Jan. 6, 1998.   She conducted an RTÉ news report broadcast on September 27, 1989 on channel RTE -1 entitled “Ireland's Most Enduring Entertainer”  featuring Gay Byrne launching his autobiography 'The Time of My Life' at a reception in Dobbins restaurant in Dublin.  Video clips and text of many of her broadcasts including political stories, sports news, culture, lifestyle and fashion can be found in the RTE archives.

In 1998 while working as a freelance journalist she was defamed by comic Ruby Wax. She successfully sued Wax and Irish promoter MCD and the case was settled in 2004.  Mon, 09 Feb (2004) Ruby Wax settles slander case Irish Examiner Belfast Telegraph. In 1999 Danaher joined UTV where she worked as the Republic of Ireland correspondent and subsequently became part of New Decade as a Reporter/Producer. Over the next five years she reported widely on the Northern Ireland peace process, the search for the ‘disappeared’, and multiple criminal trials related to the Troubles.

In 2004, she was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University for her work in journalism, graduating in 2005.  She subsequently worked as a Journalism professor at the Harvard Extension School. In 2006, Danaher was appointed West Coast correspondent for the Irish Sunday Tribuneand moved to Los Angeles. She covered a variety of topics including politics, lifestyle, travel, and entertainment for the Irish and UK media, including The Daily Mail, Guardian, The Irish Times, and The Irish Examiner

In 2008, she joined the Hollywood Foreign Press as a juror and annually attends multiple international film festivals. She views hundreds of movies and TV shows before her annual voting for The Golden Globe Awards,working as an editor on the Golden Globes site and contributing to the magazine, Irish America, on Hollywood-related topics including this interview with Daniel Day-Lewis. She has been actively involved in the foreign film committee for many years with a lengthy career in journalism and breaking important political news which was highlighted in an interview by Huffington Post Danaher was appointed to the advisory board of Harvardwood in 2010 and director of Harvardwood Publishing in 2012 , winning a Harvy Award from that organization in 2015 as a volunteer “who demonstrated outstanding service and dedication to the organization.”

She has edited two anthologies of poetry and short stories under the imprint, Seven Deadly Sins (2015) and Once Upon A Fairytale (2019) She is also the founder of the Harvardwood Literary Prize for Biography.

In 2016, Danaher enrolled in a Master’s degree program in Mythology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California, where she was awarded the Joseph Campbell Scholarship. In 2022, Danaher was awarded a doctorate in Ecopsychology by Viridis Graduate Institute. The focus of her doctoral work was on ritual as a way to properly mourn the death of a baby at or before birth, inspired by the Japanese Jizo Ritual Practices. Danaher has been working with clients in the US and Ireland, creating healing rituals to mourn this kind of loss. as the Founder and CEO of The Jizo Foundation, a California 501(C)(3) non-profit organization  working to introduce healing Jizo rituals to the West as a first-of-its-kind foundation. In November 2023  she donated the first large Jizo statue to a historic cemetery Westwood Hills Memorial Park in Placerville, CA. at the opening of the first Jizo Healing Site in the U.S. The work of her non-profit charitable organization has been recognized in various media  including the Independent She has created educational video presentations for the company “Leadership After Loss”. She has also recognized for her leadership work in healing trauma at Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni AssociationDanaher also serves on the international advisory board of the Auschwitz Institute.

Her work related to the Hollywood Foreign press has been covered internationally in the following news and media outlets: Huffington Post.and the Irish Independent. As an international journalist she contributes to multiple platforms, including interviews with other persons of note: redef, Poddtoppen, Golden Globes Around the World, Facebook, and The Times

Danaher was interviewed by Shane McGrath, published in the Irish Daily Mail, Tuesday, October 15, 2024, with an article discussing The Jizo Foundation, during Child Loss Awareness Month.

Personal life

She married her first husband, entertainment attorney Bill Grantham in 2007. Divorced in 2016 and then Married to Dierk Sindermann in 2018. Her husband died and she was widowed in 2021