Diyana Dobberteen

Diyana Dobberteen has helped build EW from the ground up, since 2001. She informs our development strategies and brings three decades of nonprofit management and fundraising experience to our team.

Applying her first MA in Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara, Diyana lectured on women in development, community psychology and culture change. She went on to successfully launch multi-agency collaborative programs addressing teen pregnancy in the United States. Working to reduce teen and unintended pregnancies, she worked with United Boys & Girls Clubs. Planned Parenthood, Girls Inc., Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Fatherhood Coalition on a Community Challenge Grant (1997-2011). Inspired by Laura Huxley (wife of Aldous Huxley) and her Teens and Toddlers youth development program for at-risk youth, Diyana worked with EW to secure a grant for Teens and Toddlers and expanded the program to Santa Barbara, CA.

Diyana earned a second M.A. in Organization Development (Fielding Graduate University, 2018), and in the process, she added 'issue framing within social movements' to her base of knowledge. Having recently moved from EW's home town of Santa Barbara to San Fransisco, California, Diyana was hired to an institutional giving role with the organization, Hamilton Families. In this capacity she is working to raise funds to prevent and reduce family homelessness.