Dilly Severin

Director of Communications

Dilly crafts and implements PAI's communications and media strategy and manages the communications team. She also supports PAI's international partners, providing them with training and communications assistance as needed. Dilly is co-chair of the International Family Planning Coalition Communicators' group along with the Guttmacher Institute and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Before joining PAI in 2008, she served as Communications Coordinator at the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity (CRGE) and was the Program Coordinator of the YouthActionNet program at the International Youth Foundation. Dilly holds a master’s of public policy in international development from the University of Maryland and a master's of communication from American University. She has an undergraduate degree in English literature with a minor in Asian studies.