Line Producing
Diana has worked as a Line Producer at Twin Cities PBS and specialized in diverse and intersectional multimedia storytelling where her team created dozens of award-winning documentaries highlighting immigrant, Indigenous, Black, and queer stories.
Documentaries
Bring Her Home follows three Indigenous women – an artist, an activist, and a politician – as they fight to vindicate and honor their missing and murdered relatives who have fallen victims to a growing epidemic across Indian country. Despite the lasting effects from historical trauma, each woman must search for healing while navigating racist systems that brought about this very crisis.
Out North: MNLGBTQ History explores the untold past of Minnesota's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community and celebrates the strides the state has made since the gay liberation movement began in the 1970s.
Reclaiming Sacred Tobacco depicts Minnesota’s American Indian communities reclaiming traditional practices, highlighting sacred tobacco, and discouraging commercial tobacco use in order to promote a healthier lifestyle
Stories originating in places like Willmar, Bemidji, St. Paul, Fort Campbell, and South Vietnam provide personal perspectives of what the war in Vietnam was like for the teens and young adults who experienced it.
Digital
Arthur Buckner and Linda Diaz are accomplished musicians and music teachers exploring the music theory, production, history and culture behind our favorite songs and musical styles.
Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood of Empowerment and TPT Partnerships present “Muslim Sheroes of Minnesota” – profiles amplifying girls and women in our community who aren’t waiting for permission to change the world.
A six-month pilot sprint, the collection shed light on Minnesota's devastating housing crisis. I led a 5+ person team designing a mix of old & new coverage to assemble 30 multimedia video articles which have been used to lobby for more equitable housing solutions by the East Side Housing movement in St. Paul.
A two-year multilingual campaign for the 2020 Census, this project featured 15 original pieces of media that reached over 10+ million viewers between June 2019 & July 2020 and was featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. I led creative strategy, distribution, and managed 10+ staff across all stages of project work.
Multimedia
A three-year, multi-grant funded series, this web collection designed educational materials to understand the complexities of food insecurity, available programs like WIC and SNAP, and how meal time is family time. I led project design and execution across 60 videos for digital and broadcast, four multilingual toolkits, and 50+ community partners between 2015-2018.
A three-year grant project that brings Muslim and non-Muslim communities to table together to foster empathy and solidarity. I led a 30+ person team responsible for producing and distributing 10 original multimedia stories, 4 large-scale virtual event workshops, a digital cookbook, and a robust final report.
A two year station initiative, this project is required to deliver 144 digital pieces, host 8 listening sessions, produce 6 virtual events, create a 10-episode original digital series. I manage a 20+ person team across all stages of project work.
Live Programs
2018 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Breakfast featuring keynote speaker David Oyelowo.
Hundreds gathered together to hear acclaimed authors Tim O'Brien and Marlon James in an honest and emotional conversation that covered O’Brien's experiences during, and learnings from, the Vietnam War; their lives as writers; and their perspectives on the power of story in creating connections. Produced with Macalester College.
