 During the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, Daugaard organized the legal defense of activists.Daugaard started the Racial Disparity Project, a program in Seattle that addresses police use of racial information in law enforcement, in 2001.Ten years later, she helped create Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), a program that diverts low-level offenders in King County, Washington, from the criminal justice system into the social services system.