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 catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
