Carlin Dixon is an award-winning culture-first strategist with experience across brands like Hilton, The Mayo Clinic, and Brooklyn Film Festival. As Associate Director of DEI Strategy at global advertising agency TBWA\Chiat\Day\NY, Carlin works alongside agency leadership to create an equitable and inclusive environment for employees while ensuring the agency’s creative product tells diverse, equitable, and inclusive stories.

He currently serves as a co-lead on the Alumni Engagement Committee for the ADCOLOR Advisory Board. He has been recognized as a 2018 ADCOLOR FUTURE and one of “50 Rising Stars on Madison Avenue in 2021” by Business Insider. Carlin is a proud Midwesterner from Cleveland, OH, and holds a B.A in Media Production & Studies from Bowling Green State University, where he studied the intersection of media, race, representation, and culture.