Dakarai I. Aarons

Dakarai I. Aarons is the director of strategic communications for the Data Quality Campaign, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring parents, students, educators and policymakers have the information making they need to make decisions that improve student achievement.

As chief thought leader on leveraging communications strategies to achieve advocacy goals. I provide strategic leadership as a member of DQC’s leadership team and lead efforts to advancethe organization’s goals through evidence-based internal and externalcommunications strategies that increase the organization’s impact on the field. My responsibilities include messaging, branding, media relations, crisis communications, partnership engagement, publications and digital strategy.

An award winning communications executive and journalist, I am a board member of the Education Writers Association and member of the National Press Club.