About Me.

Diana Gamez (she/her/hers) is currently a UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose innovative research spans the intersection of gender and sexuality, experimental ethnography, archives, and Central American Studies.

Diana is from Los Angeles with roots in Guatemala. She earned her BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz. For two years, she worked in the non-profit sector, followed by two years as a project assistant for a research project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the University of Southern California. Diana recently completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, where she profoundly engaged with Central American Studies, Black Studies, and Black epistemologies, challenging conventional notions of knowledge production.