Diana Wilkins

Director of Strategy & Impact, Center for Safety & Change

Diana Wilkins is the current Director of Strategy & Impact at Center for Safety & Change. Diana also works with Social Justice Initiatives LLC, a consulting agency that thinks differently, infusing leadership and marketing strategies through an anti-racist, social justice lens. She has worked in leadership, development, strategic planning, and other avenues of nonprofit succession, as well as in graphic design and marketing, and special events and fundraising initiatives.

Diana was co-founder and Deputy Director of the Rockland County Pride Center, an LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) organization with an anti-racist, social justice mission. She utilizes best practices while providing services, resources, and programming for the LGBTQ+ and TGNCNB Community, ensuring that everyone is treated equally and with affirmation and authenticity.

Diana has a wide and vast knowledge in program development, leadership accountability and growth, development and strategy and education, training initiatives. In her professional career, Diana fought on the front lines for Marriage Equality in New York State as well as for GENDA in New York State, teaches college level literature and writing, and is a team member of Social Justice Initiatives, LLC. Diana attended the College of New Rochelle where she studied English and Journalism and has her Master of Arts in Literature from Queens College and her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Lesley University. Diana teaches literature and writing at Ramapo College of New Jersey and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Diana loves literature, poetry and advocacy and has had the opportunities to run retreats for women to tell their stories and collaborate on writing, storytelling, and creative space development for women in Rockland County, NY. Diana has two poems, and one piece of photography published in Newtown Writers anthology “Off the Rocks”.