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Dayna Reggero is a listener and award-winning documentarian. She was an All-American and Division 1 long distance runner. Dayna’s work started at 19, when she began appearing on television with animals to promote connection to nature.

Mallory McDuff’s 2023 book, “Love Your Mother” features a chapter on Dayna’s work, and begins” “Dayna  Reggero was riding shotgun. She listened with her whole body; deep brown eyes facing the driver, her head of long brown curls nodding with compassion.”

In a print feature, Woman’s Day Magazine showcased Dayna as an “Earth Mother: an Artist Activist who isn’t just fighting for cleaner air and water, but protecting a community’s most precious resources – its people.”

Salon.com wrote: “By trade, Dayna Reggero is an environmentalist. Her work spans over two decades and ranges from filmmaking to beginning her career as a spokesperson. However, her most skilled work might come in the form of organizing conversations, or simply starting them.”

Dayna has been interviewed by CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX networks and coordinated with Animal Planet, TLC, and the Food Network for features. Her efforts have been featured by the Jane Goodall Institute, National Geographic as an Open Explorer Expedition, and in nationwide PBS series EcoSense for Living. Dayna was selected for the Jackson Wild Mentorship Program, participated in the Sundance Institute Short Film Program, and was asked to listen to the creators of Netflix’s Our Planet II.

Dayna was invited to join Ethan Hawke, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Josh Hamilton, Antonique Smith and frontline leaders for the 2023 Climate March and Jane Fonda and Taylor Schilling for special Gulf Coast Fire Drill Friday in DC. Dayna launched Woody Harrelson’s effort to preserve forests; coordinated with Ian Somerhalder on collaborations to move beyond coal and protect forests; shared the inspiring voices of Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Cheech Marin on an album connecting children and nature; interviewed Michelle Branch, Adam Savage, Olivia Newton John, Fabulous Beekman Boys, and many more thought leaders for features about sustainability; and coordinated with Danny Glover and Patti LaBelle at events for social justice and animal welfare. In 2023, she interviewed the filmmakers behind the Netflix series Our Planet II and joined an intimate writers room with Hollywood writers, producers, and showrunners to chat about climate fiction ideas for top tv shows and movies like Walking Dead, The Umbrella Academy, and Lois and Clark.

Dayna’s first film effort was a tour of California’s sustainable farmers with Discovery Communications and Chevy Volt. Then, Dayna collaborated with the Sierra Club on the Emmy Award-winning series “Years of Living Dangerously” before founding the Climate Listening Project.

The Climate Listening Project connects hopeful conversations on climate change impacts and community solutions through listening and radical love. She is currently working on her new film “Apology to Earth” following big ships from coastal communities in Florida to Japan and Philippines. Dayna traveled to Belize to listen to birders across borders for “The Wood Thrush Connection” film. Dayna went on a national listening tour, filming moms for documentary “The Story We Want”. She traveled across the United States listening to farmers for a series “Cultivating Resilience”. She traveled to listen to doctors and health professionals on the front lines for her film “Planet Prescription”. She listened to artists along the beaches and bayous of the Gulf Coast sacrifice zones for her new documentary short film “Gulf Coast Love Story”.

The Climate Listening Project has reached millions of people. Films continue to be shown at local and international impact events, from universities to the Paris Climate Talks. The “Faith in Action” film was shared with a DIY action toolkit at 4,000 churches across the United States. Dayna created a live mural with students at the University of Houston as part of art equity and solidarity initiative to launch Gulf Coast Murals, sharing funding with artists creating murals in cities along the Gulf Coast visioning a healthy hopeful future.

Education

Master of Science, Environmental Policy
Bachelor of Arts, Communications