Diana

Diana is the Grantmaking Systems Officer at Grassroots International. She joined the Grassroots International team with a decade-long career as a local and national community organizer on issues of immigrant and worker rights as well as access to higher education.

She comes from Chicago, where she coordinated the Illinois Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Coalition and had the honor to work alongside a multilingual and multinational grassroots movement with the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She also worked with the global fellows of the KIPP Foundation’s school leadership programs team.

Among her initial community organizing and engagement roles was as a community development corporation’s first Latin@ Outreach Coordinator in her college town, where she has fond memories of las comadres in the neighborhood.

Soon after, Diana leveraged her community organizing with Senator Durbin’s DREAM Sabbath project with the Interfaith Immigration Coalition in Washington, D.C. connecting undocumented youth coming out of the shadows to audiences across the United States.

It was with the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) that she first engaged with workers’ rights issues as researcher and co-author of Trabajadoras: Challenges and Conditions of Latina Workers in the United States.