Diana (she/her) is a History PhD student. Her scholarly interests focus on incarceration, freedom struggles, migration, and race in late 20th-century U.S. northern cities. Her research seeks to understand how racialized northern urban communities have responded to spaces of social control (e.g. prisons and borders).
Diana graduated from Swarthmore College, Phi Beta Kappa, with a B.A. in History and Spanish. Following graduation, she directed “Memorializing and Reimagining Resistance,” a public history program for youth in Brooklyn, NY, and curated a digital community archive titled The Bushwick Archive which documents testimonies of displacement and resistance. She also worked in the immigration field where she advocated for immigrant New Yorkers facing deportation as a result of their criminal convictions.