Dania Diaz

Dania Diaz serves as the Managing Director of Philanthropy at Roc Nation. In her role she works with her team to significantly maximize the charitable and community impact of artists and athletes through strategic philanthropic management and advisory support services so that they may be better equipped to effectively advance social good and impact, locally, nationally, and globally. She also helps to maintain the company’s unwavering commitment to humanitarianism through Team Roc, the Social Justice Department. In addition, she serves as Executive Director of the Shawn Carter Foundation. She has been with Roc Nation and the Shawn Carter Foundation since July 2011.

Prior to her current role Dania spent seven years as Deputy Director and Interim Executive Director of Oliver Scholars, a youth development program for underserved, high-achieving Black and Latino students seeking to attend private independent and boarding schools. Prior to that, she spent nine years at Columbia Business School’s Executive Education Department, serving as the Associate Director of the Institute for Not-for-Profit Management, dedicated to building managerial and leadership capacity within the not-for-profit sector both domestically and globally.

Dania is also mother to her high school-age son and college-age daughter. She earned her master of arts degree at Teachers College, Columbia University and bachelor of arts degree at Columbia College, Columbia University in New York.