Diana was born in 1968 into a complicated world and a complicated family. She had an abusive White dad and a Black mom, and was the sixth child of seven in her family. This childhood taught her a lot about diversity and overcoming adversities, but her muscle in advocating for herself grew when, at the age of 14, she stopped her father from trying to abuse her.
Instead of running away, she started running track. Eventually, Diana’s mom started slipping encouraging notes in her track shoes, which gave Diana the confidence to become a Division 1 College Track Athlete and go to law school. 

Diana became an Ohio licensed attorney and experienced great success in the corporate world, rising to executive level positions and sitting on corporate boards. She then became a civil rights attorney, becoming
the general counsel, vice president, and chief operating officer of a fair housing non-profit organization. Still, she longed to encourage women to stand up for themselves, so after years of personal and professional development training, she started her own company in 2016.

Now, Diana helps female corporate leaders overcome challenges and adversities to gain the confidence to speak up and take action for themselves by advocating for what they need and want in their organizations and in their communities. Women leaders graduate from her 8-week Rise Advocates® Academy to become Certified Rise Advocates®. Diana has a vision to certify 100,000 female corporate leaders with the hopes that they will mentor 1,000 women.