HG Danakeli devi dasi joined in Chicago, 1985 and received initiation by HH Ganapati Swami Maharaja in 1987. She got married in 1989 to HG Prthusrava das and have done 10 years of temple services and 9 years ran a college preaching center. And she has been doing full time traveling sankirtana with her husband, mostly at college campuses for over 10 years now.