Dianne Frances Powell is a storyteller and strategic thinker who is currently associate director of marketing and communications at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. She directs SMWC's social media presence as well as creates original content for both digital and print. She is head of the institution's social media administrators group and creator of the social media student ambassadors program. She is also lead writer and editor.

Before coming to SMWC, she was a reporter for the Tribune-Star, a daily newspaper in Terre Haute, Indiana. In 2016, she won second best news coverage under deadline pressure at the Better Newspaper Contest by the Hoosier State Press Association. She holds a master's degree from Ohio University and a bachelor's degree from Indiana University South Bend. In 2018, she served as host coordinator for CASE's Circle of Excellence Awards Feature Writing (topical) category.