Mother, Humanitarian, Writer, and Activist

Diana has bookended her life as a humanitarian and social activist, having worked as a social worker on the border of Mexico and California as a college student and a volunteer teacher to refugees as a retiree. Among her many travel trips with a cause, she has journeyed to Jalapa, Guatemala to help build a chicken coop for an orphanage and chaperoned twenty-seven students, including her son, to help clean up the ninth ward in New Orleans after Katrina. She currently volunteer teaches English online to asylum seekers from the Congo, Guatemala and San Salvador and translates Spanish to English between asylum seekers and their attorneys for Immigration for Justice. She spent a month on the island of Lesvos, Greece, teaching refugees English.

Her career was in broadcast media and advertising. Spanning more than two decades, she sold media, participated in the startup of two Bay Area radio stations and ran her own full service advertising agency to great success, employing twelve full time and countless contract workers.

Today Diana teaches and writes. She has presented two published papers at the Graduate Liberal Studies Symposium at St Mary’s College in Los Angeles and St. John’s University at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and has received more than 250 downloads from her thesis, Blanquiando published on Dominican Scholar in 2019.

Hear her read excerpts from her thesis, Blanquiando, on thearcstorytellers.com, a platform where creatives are invited in to read their original work to an audience of avid listeners. Currently, Diana is in the throes of completing the book, the full story she started with Blanquiando, a memoir of her mother, Violeta’s consequential life. See more at Blanquiando.com

Diana is first and foremost the proud mother of Marco and Sam.

Meet Diana

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