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Dahna Chandler

(She/Her)
  • Doctoral Student, University of Southern California
  • Contributor, Barn Raiser
United States
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Covers:  Banking, personal and business finance (including loans), small business development and operations, real estate, lifestyle especially wellbeing and slow living.
Doesn't Cover: Religion, sports, politics, entertainment (celebrity-focused "business" stories or events), consumer products (like electronics), or most hard or breaking news or investigative pieces.
Award-Winning Journalist Specializing Reported Features

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Award-winning journalist covering wealth, business, and lifestyle. I write deeply reported, human-centered agribusiness pieces for national outlets like Family Business Magazine, Barn Raiser, and profiles for alumni publications like Wellesley Magazine. My stories explore how people sustain legacy, navigate finance, build meaning through work, place, and purpose and live with intention to improve their overall wellbeing.

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Dahna Chandler’s Journalist Portfolio

Design With Community in Mind

Design With Community in Mind

Tonja Adair '92, co-founder of Splice Design, an architecture firm with offices in New York City and Atlanta,…

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A Landmark Dealmaker

A Landmark Dealmaker

Lisa Lim '86 has had a legal career defined by landmark real estste deals that transformed New York City's la…

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Seeds of a legacy

Seeds of a legacy

For more than 150 years, Black-owned Gilliard Farms has remained both ahead of its time and rooted in history.

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At Gilliard Farms, Food, Healing and Heritage Grow Together

At Gilliard Farms, Food, Healing and Heritage Grow Together

For 150 years, a family of Gullah Geechee descent has preserved their story through Gilliard Farms and organi…

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Union School: An innovation in education

Union School: An innovation in education

When the Gilliard family established Union School on their property in 1907, they created more than a place o…

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At Gilliard Farms, Food, Healing and Heritage Grow Together

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By Dahna Chandler
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This story was originally published by Barn Raiser, your independent source for rural and small town news. For 150 years, a family of Gullah Geechee descent has preserved their story through family land. In 1874, Jupiter Gilliard, who had been enslaved before emancipation, purchased 476 acres of coastal Georgia soil near rural Brunswick. That act of ownership rooted his descendants in the land they still tend today.
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At Gilliard Farms, Food, Healing and Heritage Grow Together

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By Dahna Chandler
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When Matthew Raiford, who co-owns Gilliard farms with his sister Althea, walks the property, history reveals itself with every step. “Everywhere you walk,” he says, “a family member or someone else connected with the land has told you what once happened there.” He talks about the old sugarcane press, the 1907 schoolhouse marked by a donated historical plaque and the faint traces of where the Southern Railroad once crossed the fields.
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Seeds of a legacy

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By Dahna Chandler
| Family Business Magazine Verified
In 1874, Jupiter Gilliard purchased 476 acres of land for what would become Gilliard Farms, pledging allegiance to the Union militia during Reconstruction to obtain the property. Today, the farm is one of the remaining 32,653 Black-owned farms in the U.S. There were just over 1.9 million farms in the U.S. as of 2022. Today, Gilliard's descendants, Matthew Raiford and his wife, Tia Raiford, control the farm. They represent the sixth generation managing and farming the land.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

After college, I was a stringer for a local newspaper in Framingham, MA called the "MetroWest Daily News."

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Thank GOD not for more than typing envelopes! I was blessed to have a professor father who got me access to computers early.

How is social media changing news?

It's making it imperative that we get the news out to audiences faster while getting it right.
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