Meet Danielle Kinkel, Founding Board Member

Danielle is the General Counsel at the Massachusetts Housing Partnership in Boston where she works with real estate developers, banks, government agencies, and non-profits to finance affordable housing developments in the Commonwealth. Danielle has extensive experience layering private and public financing sources and advising on an array of housing policy and corporate governance matters. She is a graduate of the Northeastern University School of Law (J.D.), the Boston College Lynch School of Education (M.Ed.), and the University of Michigan (B.A.), and is a former partner at the law firm of Nolan Sheehan Patten LLP. Danielle first learned about congenital cytomegalovirus when her goddaughter, Evelyn Spytek, was born with a congenital CMV infection which eventually led to significant hearing and vision loss, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, microcephaly, and much more. Danielle remains inspired by Evelyn every day, and is honored to carry out her legacy through the National CMV Foundation and tells Evelyn's story to anyone who will listen. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband, Ben, and two sons, Oliver and Sebastian.