Did Northbrook, Illinois teacher Danielle Chalfie file a false police report?

Danielle M. Chalfie, 40, of Northbrook, Cook County, Illinois, United States is a teacher. She specializes in reading fluency, language skills, math, autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), common core standards, international baccalaureate (IB) curriculum and executive functioning skills.

Who is Danielle Chalfie?

Aside from Northbrook, Chalfie has lived in other parts of Illinois including Chicago, Skokie and Buffalo Grove. She worked as a special education teacher in several schools including Haven Middle School in Evanston, Cook County.

From 2004 to 2008, Chalfie attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature. From 2013 to 2014, she went to National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois where she earned her master’s degree in teaching secondary English education.

In an interview with NBC News in March 2020, she talked about her participation in Chicago’s program that connects families with people who offer child care to the city’s most essential workforce amid the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. On October 28, 2020, she was dismissed from her position as a probationary appointed teacher at William P. Gray Elementary School in Chicago.

In February 2021, while employed as a special education teacher in Glenview, Cook County, she told ABC 7 Chicago that getting her COVID-19 vaccine in Austin, Chicago was like “Hunger Games”. On March 22, 2024, the Evanston Skokie School District approved resolutions, which included her dismissal as a non-tenured teacher effective at the close of the 2023-2024 school term in May 2024.

On April 27, 2024, a video of Chalfie at Northwestern University in Evanston calling the police and falsely claiming she was surrounded by people went viral on social media. On April 28, 2024, “That Danesh Guy” Danesh Noshirvan revealed her identity on social media.