Dina Graser is a consultant specializing in urban projects that build and engage communities, with an interest in equitable economic development. She has a wide-ranging background in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and moves easily between many worlds, including transportation, housing, the arts, and public engagement.  Dina takes a strategic, creative and pragmatic approach to  connecting people and communities to build consensus and make progress on complex problems.

Dina is currently the Director of the Canadian Alliance of Transit Connected Housing (CATCH), an initiative of Social Innovation Canada.  Previous clients include the Canadian Urban Institute, Evergreen, the Canadian Women's Foundation and the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the School of Cities, University of Toronto.  She was Project Director of the National Housing Collaborative in 2016-2018, and was the first Director, Community and Stakeholder Relations at Metrolinx from 2010-2014, where she headed Metrolinx’s first community relations division, oversaw public and stakeholder engagement and pioneered its community benefits framework for the $5B Eglinton Crosstown LRT project. Before joining Metrolinx, Dina was a communications lawyer, a planning activist, and a successful producer of live shows, arts festivals, political campaigns and community events.

Dina has been active on a number of arts boards and is currently on the board of ArtHubs.  She has a B.A. from McGill University, an M.F.A. in Performing Arts Management from the City University of New York, and an LLB from the University of Toronto.