Who is Dietlind Lerner

I began my career as an award-winning journalist working across Europe and Africa for top-tier outlets including the British broadcasters Channel Four and the BBC, French television TF1, German public broadcasting ARD, the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, the Economist, and 60 Minutes Australia. 

In 2007, motivated by a desire to help the people I was reporting on, I became a non-profit communications specialist (jumping from People Magazine to Greenpeace). Since then, I have been privileged to work on some of the greatest challenges of our time, including climate change, crimes against humanity, and income inequality. I have produced campaign videos that went viral; and I have led communications at international summits in Paris, Tbilisi, Mexico City, Cape Town, and the UN. I have ghost-written op-eds for the New York Times and the Financial Times, and I have developed numerous game-changing communications campaigns.

Strategic communications and advocacy expert devoted to helping mission-driven organizations realize their goals. 

Convinced that most non-profits do not require full-time strategic communications support, at the start of 2019, I formed Dietlind Lerner Global Communications and Advocacy to provide personalized, targeted strategic communications services to mission-driven organizations. I am often brought in to work with established teams, or to quickly assemble new teams drawing from my international network of website developers, copy-editors, graphic designs, media outreach specialists, podcasters, camerawomen, video producers, translators, and events management experts.

I hold a BA in Art History and French Literature from Barnard College of Columbia University, have dual American and French citizenship, and I am fluent in French and German. Based in Berkeley, California, I have worked in thirty countries and, pandemic permitting, I am happy to travel.

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