Danita Platt is a Public Home Economist based in Maryland. Her work brings together practical Home Economics teaching, household systems, lived practice, and inquiry into the history and social meaning of domestic life.
Education and professional background
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Family and Consumer Science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Her professional background includes work as a high-school teacher and community organizer.
Current practice
Danita’s practice includes public teaching, publishing, practical resources, and household-systems consultation. She is the founder and leader of The Home Ecology Project, the institutional home for her practical educational work in Home Economics. Her resources include The 355 Home Care System, a field guide for daily home care.
Her ongoing lived practice, essays, thinking, and inquiry continue through Home + Life by Danita Platt. Selected Writing gathers durable public pieces on this website for readers and professional or institutional evaluation.
Selected speaking and media experience
Keynote and conference speaking
Keynote Speaker, Rise and Climb Wellness Day, Postpartum Support International 35th Annual Conference, New Orleans, 2022
Media and expert commentary
Guest, Struggle Care, “The Color of Care Tasks with Danita Platt”
A discussion of invisible labor, Black women’s domestic labor, the history of care work in the United States, and contemporary household expectations and care tasks.
Principal areas of inquiry
Her principal areas of inquiry include domestic labor and its historical organization; race, gender, and the American household; foodways and household knowledge; practical domestic competence; household maintenance and systems; and Home Economics as a contemporary public discipline.
Across these areas, she examines the relationship between domestic expectations, the labor required to sustain them, and the knowledge and systems that support everyday life.