Diane Samuels
Co-Founder, City of Asylum
2022
Diane Samuels is a co-founder of City of Asylum. As a volunteer, she has led its public art, facilities development, and residency programs.
She is an artist represented by Pavel Zoubok Fine Arts (NYC). Her work is part of permanent collections and she has exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe. Most relevant to the conference, are several commissioned works. In 1998, she completed a commissioned memorial garden in Grafeneck, Germany, site “A” of the so-called euthanasia experiments in 1940. In 2002, she finished a six-year project working with residents in Buttenhausen, Germany, to deal with its WWII legacy. Luminous Manuscript, a commissioned permanent artwork for the main hall of the Center for Jewish History in New York is included in “Monuments: America’s History in Art and Memory.”
At the Summit
My network of professionals working on countering hate in all its forms grew exponentially after attending Eradicate Hate in 2021. The myriad voices represented at Eradicate Hate, from big tech companies to academic researchers to those with lived experience, reinforced to me the importance of cross-cutting and collaborative approaches to counter hate and its devastating impacts on society. I’ve been fortunate to sustain and build those networks with many of those I met at Eradicate Hate in 2021.
