Profile:
Prior to attending Wisconsin Law School, Diana worked as a Health Benefits Advocate for a public interest law firm helping families access private and public health care services. As a law student, Diana was Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal, and was involved in the Latino Law Students Association and the Public Interest Law Foundation. She received the Abe Sigman Award for her scholarship, character, and service, and the Katherine Held Award for her contribution to the Women’s Law Journal. Her Comment entitled Using SCHIP to Provide Prenatal Care to Undocumented Women in Wisconsin: The Benefits, Risks, and Shortcomings, was published in 2005. Diana has interned at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. She received her B.A. in Journalism from Wisconsin-Madison.
Diana completed her Fellowship with the Public Policy Law and Litigation Department of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Fluent in Spanish, Diana represented her department at two international conferences, one in Peru in Fall 2006 and one in Colombia in Spring 2007. One of her major research projects dealt with an employment discrimination case, where Diana analyzed all of the Title VII Supreme Court cases from the last decade as well as related decisions written by the Cheif Justice and Justice Alito prior to their appointments to the Supreme Court. Diana also investigated issues ranging from complex constitutional law principles to the standards for granting a rehearing en banc in federal circuit court litigation. She also reported on the activities of the department for an electronic bi-weekly newsletter.
Diana serves as an Associate Staff Attorney with the Public Policy Litigation & Law department at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. |
