Diana Laura is a PhD candidate in History. Her research examines multiethnoracial migrant protest and the mass criminalization of immigrants in New York City since the 1980s. She also founded and curates The Bushwick Archive, a Brooklyn-based digital community archive that documents testimonies of dispossession, place-making, and working-class urbanism in her home city.
Prior to pursuing a PhD, Diana Laura worked in the crimmigration legal field where she advocated for incarcerated and migrant New Yorkers in post-conviction criminal proceedings. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in History and Spanish from Swarthmore College.