Diána Hughes
Senior Director Of Strategy And Operations, Parents For Peace
2023
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 effort to eradicate hate requires the active participation of every component of our society, to include governments, the private sector, communities of faith and indeed every aspect of civil society. There is no more urgent task in front of us. The organizers of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit are doing the United States and the world an enormous service by tackling hatred and extremism with a focus on honest dialogue and conversation, genuine learning and practical solutions. This will not happen overnight, but the Pittsburgh community’s leadership in this effort is genuinely inspiring and motivating.
