Dalia grew up in the youth movement Hashomer Hatzair and attended their camp, Camp Shomria, for 15 years. She graduated with High Distinction from the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict and Justice Studies at the at the University of Toronto, and combined her background in Conflict Studies with her love of camp as the Director of Heart to Heart, a program that brings Jewish and Palestinian Israeli teens to Camp Shomria each summer for shared society education and dialogue programming. She is currently is the Associate Director for the New Israel Fund in New England, where she supports NIF's mission to protect Israeli democracy and ensure equality for everyone living in Israel. She also serves as a board member for Hashomer Hatzair - Camp Shomria Canada, because once a camp person always a camp person!