Founder, Organizer
Diana Sánchez is originally from Puebla, Mexico. She came to the United States at age four and attended school in Port Chester and Yonkers. She started advocating for the community as a young teen, becoming the first student to speak in a Yonkers town hall against Yonkers’ public school budget cuts. In 1999, her parents organized buses to Washington D.C. and New York City where she participated in rallies, marches and also addressed large crowds in support of immigration reform.
Diana is a former director of “Espiritu de Mexico,” a local Mexican folk-dancing group in Yonkers, where she has taught dance to children, teenagers and adults for over 18 years. In 2016, she participated in a bi-national program by the US-Mexico Foundation. This organization gave her an opportunity to learn about Mexico’s economy and politics.
Diana is one of the founders and a community organizer at Yonkers Sanctuary Movement. She is a board member of the Hudson Valley Community Coalition and has completed a fellowship with United We Dream. These organizations focus on deportation defense and advocate for legislation that is critical to the welfare of the undocumented community.