Director of Community Interaction

Sonja Diaz

dci@gsa.asucla.ucla.edu

Sonja Diaz is an alumna of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she held a variety of organizational and research appointments. After her undergraduate studies, Ms. Diaz advocated on behalf of communities of color in the health expansion debate as a Health Fellow at Latino Issues Forum and architected the first interactive online advocacy portal specifically designed to increase the civic participation of Latina registered voters as a Special Projects Associate at Hispanas Organized for Political Equality. Currently, Ms. Diaz is providing qualitative and quantitative research analysis to a longitudinal study documenting the Belmont Zone of Choice school choice-making process as a graduate student researcher for Center X at GSE&IS. Ms. Diaz is a Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) fellow and a graduate of the Applied Research Center’s Racial Justice Leadership Institute.

Quirky fact about Sonja:
Sonja was born and raised in Los Angeles and have never owned a car.