A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Diána is the Senior Director of Strategy and Operations at Parents for Peace. She obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree in international relations from Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. While completing her master’s degree, Diána took several psychology courses and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis’s Post Graduate Fellowship. To date, her academic research has mainly focused on the psychology of violent extremism and terrorism.
Before joining the team, Diána worked at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Emergency Preparedness, Research, Evaluation, and Practice (EPREP), contributing to research related to terrorism, extremism, and human trafficking. Diána has coauthored several publications on these topics.
The Eradicate Hate Global Summit brings together scholars, practitioners, civil society organizations, and policymakers from around the world to share best practices and lessons learned, based on data and empirical evidence, in countering hate-fueled extremism and violent narratives. No other summit, conference, or workshop brings together such an extraordinary group of world-class talent focused on dealing with the issue of hate-fueled violent extremism.
