Dani Reyes-Acosta is an award-winning cultural strategist, filmmaker, show host, speaker,  outdoor adventurer, and advocate for climate and outdoor equity. 

Best known most recently for her work in outdoor filmmaking and community impact, she has led cross-platform creative development — from concept to delivery — for clients like Vail Resorts and Nike, as well as for her own community-building initiatives through impact media studio Afuera Productions. Managing co-located teams since 2013, she is a systems thinker: securing funding, structuring global initiatives, and telling stories that catalyze paradigmatic change.

Her public-facing storytelling work has inspired audiences through her award-winning narratives of reciprocity and belonging since 2022. Best known for the OUTLIER series (COMMON in 2025, TRUST in 2022), DISPATCHES (2024), and WELL WORN LIFE (2022), she brings to life stories that challenge convention and highlight voices at the crux of our collective future.  

Honored with the “The Thrill of the Mountains” award at Trento Film Festival in 2026, “Most Inspiring Film” at No Man’s Land Film Festival in 2025, the Adán Medrano Film Award from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture in 2024, and recognized by Protect Our Winters and The North Face for her leadership in climate and outdoor equity storytelling, she crafts creative and campaigns that call us back to the unbound roots of our human nature. (Other awards include a Nike Maxim Award in 2013, “EVOLVE IMMEDIATELY” for her team’s work with NFL Supply Chain Transformation and a SANDAG Diamond Award in 2009 for the Tribal Transportation Demand Management Plan with the Reservation Transportation Authority.)