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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.

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. Mallory McDuff’s 2023 book, “Love Your Mother” features a chapter on Dayna’s work. Dayna was selected for the Jackson Wild Mentorship Program and participated in the Sundance Institute Short Film Program.

In 2022, Dayna joined Jane Fonda and Taylor Schilling for special Gulf Coast Fire Drill Friday in DC. Dayna also 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.

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. Dayna traveled to Belize with National Audubon Society to listen to birders across borders to protect a beloved songbird for a documentary short film “The Wood Thrush Connection”. Dayna went on a national listening tour, filming women throughout the United States fighting and winning against a culture of extraction with Moms Clean Air Force for a documentary short film, “The Story We Want”. She traveled across the United States with NRDC, listening and filming stories of farmers taking risks and innovating to adapt to a changed climate for a documentary short series “Cultivating Resilience”. And she traveled to listen to doctors, nurses, and health professionals on the front lines of the unconnected climate and pollution pandemic with National Endowment for the Humanities and Turner Foundation for her film “Planet Prescription”.

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” short film in collaboration with EcoAmerica was shared with a DIY action toolkit at 4,000 churches across the United States. Dayna has partnered with 90 high school students to make their own Climate Listening Project podcasts; college students to create their own Climate Listening Project art; the “Wood Thrush Connection” film is being used as an elementary school curriculum; and Dayna recently painted a live mural with students at the University of Houston as part of art equity and solidarity initiative.

Dayna is currently listening in the Gulf.