Dani Marrero Hi was born in Reynosa, México, and raised in Mission, Texas, two neighboring cities on opposite sides of the Río Bravo along the Texas-Mexico border. Since 2015, Dani has committed their work to using design, digital communications, and storytelling to advance social justice movements with a focus on immigrant and LGBTQ communities in and near the Rio Grande Valley. Dani is driven by a vision to disrupt corporate and mainstream flows of information that serve the status-quo and keep us from imagining and winning a new world for all of us. The more power we have to create information on print, online, TV, movies, radio, etc. to tell our own stories and values, the more power we have to shape our present and future.

Dani is a Gemini, nonbinary, and uses they/them and she/her pronouns. Their last name "Hi" is pronounced like the pronoun "he" and not like the greeting.