About Us
How It Started
One day in 2020, Dani wondered how she could help her favorite animal---the orca--from her home in North Texas. She then remembered elementary days when kids would be sponsored for running laps for charity. She wondered if, for her upcoming one mile every hour on the hour for 24-hour challenge, she could find 24 people to sponsor a mile for orcas in the Pacific Northwest.
Lo and behold, she did.
In 2024, she ran again for the Southern Resident orcas, and this time, raised even more money for conservation efforts and donated the funds to Orca Conservancy (Orca Conservancy).
This year, she's working to formalize fundraising efforts and even build a community around running for orcas. This year's 24-hour challenge will run from midnight to 11:00 PM on June 21st to coincide with Orca Action Month, and the non-profit we're supporting this year is Save Our wild Salmon (Save Our Wild Salmon - Home). We're not affiliated with this nonprofit, but we're aligned in our visions--restoring salmon populations that are critical to the Southern Resident orcas.
So thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, for being here for this journey. Please connect with Dani on Instagram at @unicorns.eat.pancakes. And if you see her or Bryan at a local run, be sure to ask for an Orca Bun Runners sticker!