#61 - Danny Sanchez - The City Peace Project
Danny Sanchez is the Founder and Executive Director of The City Peace Project. Pastor Danny serves our community as a passionate Youth Violence Prevention Activist and Latino Leadership Advocate. He is the volunteer Lead Chaplain for the City of San Jose Mayor's Gang Prevention Task Force and Lead Chaplain for Santa Clara County Valley Medical Hospital Peer Intervention Program, Trauma to Triumph. Danny works as an ally for students and schools through his coaching, mentoring, and conflict resolution and leads inspiring tech tours in Silicon Valley. He is a San Jose native with deep roots in the local community.
In our conversation, we talk about Danny's transformation that led him to found the City Peace City Peace project as well as discuss his book "Post Traumatic Quest: From pain to purpose, purpose to peace, his memoirs, which is accompanied by three songs he had written and remastered for the May 2021 release.
Post Traumatic Quest: From pain to purpose, purpose to peace.
In 1999, Danny Sanchez was an inmate in San Quentin Prison. In 2012, he was commended for his work in youth violence prevention and named a Champion of Change by President Barak Obama. Experience his journey through the trauma that shaped his childhood, his spiral in self-destruction, then his radical transformation and quest to serve the community he loves. Danny grew up in the juvenile incarceration system and lived a violent life, including police brutality, suicide attempts, and surviving multiple stabbings. Today Danny is a city chaplain and the founder of The City Peace Project non-profit organization in San Jose, California, where he inspires youth through his innovation as a social entrepreneur.
The City Peace Project (https://thecitypeaceproject.org/) IG: thecitypeaceproject (https://www.instagram.com/thecitypeaceproject/)
Purchase at Post Traumatic Quest: From pain to purpose, purpose to peace on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Post-Traumatic-Quest-Transcend-Purpose/dp/1736777912) IG: posttraumaticquest (https://www.instagram.com/posttraumaticquest/)
The music for this episode is by Danny Sanchez. Listen to all three tracks onSpotify(http://bit.ly/PTQDSanchez)
Danny was featured in issue 8.4 "Profiles."
