Diane Robertson

Diane Robertson, believes her role is to leave the world a better place for her children and grandchildren's generation. This belief motivates and propels her work as a community organizer and activist. She has a particular interested in the power of story telling through the medium of film, where she works as a consultant in development and production. She studied history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio and Latin American history at Indiana University. Ms. Robertson is from Jamaica, West Indies and lived on the East Coast, Mid West and the border of Mexico before moving to Carrboro, North Carolina. She is currently the Political Chair for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP, serves on several boards, including Democracy North Carolina and Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. In the past she served on the board of the Southern Documentary Fund and was the interim director in 2016.