Dana W. White
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Dana W. White is a Managing Partner at Juno Collective, a marketing and communications firm based in Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. White also served as a senior managing director at Ankura, a consulting firm, and led its Geopolitical Strategy Advisory business unit. She oversaw approximately 100 employees and annual revenues exceeding $40 million. Dana served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and the Chief Pentagon Spokesperson for the Department of Defense and Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis. She provided strategic guidance to all branches of the U.S. Armed Services, Combatant Commands, and senior civilian leaders. She was also the senior clearing authority for all publicly released information and was responsible for the public affairs career field, which included more than 4,500 uniformed and civilian personnel worldwide. With Secretary Mattis’s decision to resign his position, Ms. White tendered her resignation effective December 31, 2018. She returned to the firm she founded, 1055 Grady LLC, a strategic communications and advisory firm in Alexandria, Virginia.
Before founding her firm, Ms. White served as the Director of Policy and Strategic Communications for the Renault-Nissan Alliance in Paris, France. She was a Professional Staff Member on the Armed Services Committee of the United States Senate, a foreign policy adviser on the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator John McCain (R-AZ), and an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal based in Hong Kong. Ms. White also served as the Taiwan Country Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Director of the Washington Roundtable for Asia-Pacific Press at the Heritage Foundation. She was a publicist at the Fox News Channel in Washington, D.C., and served as deputy press secretary on the U.S. House Republican Conference.
Ms. White has achieved several accolades, including receiving the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service and being an MIT Seminar XXI National Security Fellow. In 2016, she published the book Leader Designed: Become the Leader You Were Made to Be, in which she shares her experiences alongside those of notable leaders. She is featured in the book titled The Four Job Club: Helping Women Thrive in 4 Big Jobs with Sanity and Grace: Career, Kids, Aging Parents & Households by Kathryn Sollman. Ms. White has also authored A Light Unto the Nations and Why HBCUs Are Key to Fighting Antisemitism in Sapir Journal (www.sapirjournal.org). Additionally, Ms. White is a member of the Board of the International Republican Institute (IRI), a nonprofit organization that strengthens political parties and civil society in over 100 countries. She is a Board Member of CureDuchenne, a nonprofit organization dedicated to curing Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She also serves on the advisory committee of the Tocqueville Conversations, in cooperation with The Tocqueville Foundation based in Paris, France.
Ms. White is from Charlottesville, Virginia, and obtained a degree in Chinese history from the University of Chicago. She completed studies at the Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing, China, and at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea. Ms. White is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and French and has basic proficiency in Korean.
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