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Diana Correa Joins North Star Fund

Diana Correa joins the North Star Fund staff as the first Deputy Director for Programs & Strategic Initiatives. Beginning in January 2009, Diana will be responsible for increasing North Star Fund's philanthropic partnerships, expanding our grants and support for New York City's grassroots groups and coordinating new donor programming.

"Joining the North Star Fund at this point in history is like hitting the jackpot. The universe has never been so prepared to welcome an inspired and progressive transformation. I look forward to helping advance the foundation's agenda promoting equality, economic justice and peace. I have come full circle and feel like I'm home again," said Diana.

Hugh Hogan, Executive Director of North Star Fund said, "After a thorough process with many great candidates, we are delighted that Diana will be joining the North Star Fund community as our first ever Deputy Director for Programs & Strategic Initiatives. She will head up our Power Together initiative, which will create new resources for movement building in New York. Diana will also ensure that all the resources we've invested in pilot donor activities will become a full fledged program to expand and diversify the community of people giving through North Star Fund in support of grassroots activism and organizing."

Diana Correa brings more than 20 years of experience in program development, public interest law, and fundraising to North Star Fund. Most recently she worked at Hispanics in Philanthropy as the Northeast Regional Director of their funders' collaboratives. Diana has worked as a criminal defense attorney with the Legal Aid Society; directed an initiative on behalf of Latino inmates with the Correctional Association of New York; advocated on behalf of the legal rights of minors under the auspices of the ACLU; and served as the Assistant Director for the Center for Public Interest Law at Columbia University Law School. As a consultant in New York and Miami, she assisted private-sector and non-profit clients with fundraising and program development. Diana also worked for four years in university advancement at Florida International University in Miami.

Diana, a native New Yorker, has served on the board of Latino Justice/PRLDEF for 14 years. She received her bachelor's in sociology from City College of New York and her law degree from Rutgers University. Diana received a Fulbright fellowship to research the conditions of confiment of Latin American women incarcerated in Spain.