Danielle Pulliam, Ed.D., began her tenure at Wisconsin Athletics in 2022 as the Assistant Athletic Director for Leadership and Inclusion. She leads the Badgers' Leadership and Inclusion team.
Pulliam joined the Badgers to help continue operationalizing our vision for leadership and inclusion within the department.
Pulliam most recently served as the Assistant AD Student-Athlete Services; at Loyola University (Chicago) where she was tasked with overseeing academic support services, student-athlete development, and implementation of inclusive practices related to athletics.
Prior to that, Pulliam spent two years as an Assistant Director of Academic Services at Indiana. She was responsible for providing academic support for wrestling, women's soccer and women's golf, and was also a member of the athletics department's Anti-hate/Anti-racism Coalition, which worked to create and cultivate a more equitable and inclusive environment for student-athletes and staff.
Pulliam spent four years as an athletic academic counselor at Memphis, providing academic support for women's basketball, softball, women's soccer and men's tennis. She developed the Tigers' course curriculum for its Freshman Student-Athlete Transitions course, which provided first-year student-athletes with tools and strategies to make a successful transition to college life.
A native of Indianapolis, Pulliam was a letterwinner on the women's basketball team at Northern Illinois University where she earned both her bachelor's (B.S. in Family Child Studies) and master's degrees (M.S. Sport Management). Including a dissertation on "How do sport organizations ensure inclusiveness in the hiring process," Pulliam also earned a master's degree in Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Memphis and an Ed.D. in Global Sport Leadership from East Tennessee State University.
