Dayna Dion
Dayna Dion is Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Operations and Communications at the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Prior to joining Northwestern, Dayna served as Senior Director of National and Global Engagement at the University of Chicago’s Urban Labs and Urban Education Institute, where she earned an American Educational Research Association Outstanding Publication Award for “Communicating Research, Accountability, Evaluation or Assessment to Lay Audiences” and co-directed and produced the documentary film The Second Window. Dayna also spent more than a decade developing brand and communications strategies at global creative and media agencies, including Ogilvy, where she served as a senior partner and strategic planning director, and OMD, where she established a communications strategy team. She also served on the boards of Project Explorer, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing the world into K-12 classrooms through multimedia content, and MENTEE. Dayna holds an MS in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School, an AM in international relations from the University of Chicago and a BA in marketing from Michigan State University.