President, Duke MRM

Diana Sánchez (she/her/hers) is a first-generation, working-class junior at Duke University double majoring in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and History. A David M. Rubenstein scholar, Diana is the daughter of immigrants, mother from Honduras and father from Mexico. She became interested in the root causes of migration at a fairly young age, since she was raised in a rural North Carolina town where many seasonal migrant workers, including her own family, worked picking cabbages, tobacco, and potatoes. Diana has served as Migrant Roots Media’s (MRM) student liaison at Duke University for almost a year. She participated in MRM’s first Duke-sponsored Story+ summer session, where she was able to research the root causes of Honduran-US migration, focusing particularly on the outsourcing of labor and the pillaging of land by US corporations in Honduras. In her free time, Diana enjoys watching Netflix, drawing, and writing.