Dara Bean is the senior director of experts and booking at the National Partnership for Women & Families, where she works to publicize the work and research being done by the National Partnership by booking our president and experts on various platforms.
Prior to joining the National Partnership, Dara was an editorial producer for CNN “This Morning with Kasie Hunt,” where she curated compelling conversations, sourced diverse voices, and helped shape national narratives around today’s most pressing issues. Dara was also on the booking team for Chris Wallace’s CNN shows where she helped to facilitate the appearances of newsmakers, experts, and thought-leaders for both long-form interviews and weekly panel programming.
Before making the jump to CNN, she worked as a booking researcher for the NBC News centralized booking team with a focus on supporting breaking news coverage and discovering talent for the network’s landmark programming including the “TODAY” show, NBC “Nightly News,” and NBC News “NOW.” In addition to being a booking researcher researcher at NBC News, she also worked as a production assistant on “Stay Tuned,” the NBC News Snapchat program, and began her career as an NBC page at 30 Rock in New York City.
Dara has always had a passion for amplifying the voices of marginalized communities and providing platforms that showcase the range of human experience. She believes in the power of storytelling to encourage empathy and mutual understanding. Dara is a graduate of New York University and a native of Silver Spring, Maryland. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with friends and loved ones and keeping up with the latest pop culture craze.
