Dana W. White is the Chief Communications Officer of Hyundai Motor North America and is responsible for leading all regional communications and public relations strategy for Hyundai Motor North America, Hyundai Motor America, Genesis Motor America and Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama as well as the office of Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity and General Affairs in coordination with other affiliates including Hyundai Capital, Glovis and the Hyundai Washington D.C. office. Dana is the first African American woman to hold a leadership role in communications for a global automotive company. 

 

Dana shares her fascinating journey from growing up in Charlottesville, VA where she learned about entrepreneurship at an early age helping her grandfather who was the publisher of the Charlottsville-Albemarle Tribune, the only Black newspaper in town, to her journey serving as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and the Chief Pentagon Spokesperson for the Department of Defense and Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis, as well as speaking about her time as editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal based in Hong Kong, her experience at the Heritage Foundation and her position as publicist at the Fox News Channel in Washington, D.C.