Diana earned her B.A. in History in her hometown, Bogotá, Colombia, where she worked for four years as a primary and high school social studies teacher, before completing a M.A. in International Education and Development from University of Sussex. She worked at the Early Childhood Department at the National Ministry of Education in Colombia where in 2010, she secured a Fulbright Colciencias grant in order to pursue her doctoral studies at Teacher’s College, Columbia University.  At present she is an Ed.D. Student in International Educational Development at Teachers College, with a concentration in Peace and Human Rights Education. Currently, with the support of the ILAS pre-dissertation grant, she is conducting research on access and inclusion to secondary education for migrant and non migrant youth in Ecuador.