Diana joined the organization after graduating from Brown University in 1988 with a degree in South Asian Studies. As an undergraduate, her year-long study abroad in Varanasi, India led her to see the need for local solutions to solve global problems. This insight inspired her to pursue an internship at Ashoka, where she created one of its core programs, Fellowship Support Services, (now Fellowship) which expanded the resources available to Ashoka’s social entrepreneurs to connect them to one another. When Diana took a leave to pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology from New York University (2000), she was named both a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson scholar. Her ethnographic research on understanding how social change happens as a local articulation of a global social movement resulted in her dissertation: 'Between the Difference: The Emergence of a Cross Ethnic Women’s Movement in Trinidad and Tobago.'

Ph.D. in hand, Diana returned to Ashoka as a leader in the worldwide process of selecting social entrepreneurs to be Ashoka fellows. Additionally, she was given responsibility for Ashoka’s geographic expansion and during her tenure, there was a significant increase of Fellow elections, allowing Ashoka to reach its current total of 3,000. She became the President of Ashoka in 2005. She has contributed significantly to the field of social entrepreneurship by implementing one of the first, and now widely respected, tools to measure the impact of social entrepreneurship.

She is on the Advisory Board for the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and on the Board of GuideStar International. She has taught at Georgetown University on Anthropology and Development and has authored and edited numerous journal and book publications, including two compilations on social movements in the United States.

In 2007, Diana was celebrated as one of 10 winners of the first annual Women to Watch award, by Running Start. She also received the first Social Innovation Champion Award at George Mason University’s Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship (ASE) conference in 2011.  Since then, in 2012, her alma mater, Brown University, honored her with its highest distinction for graduates, the Williams Rogers Award, in recognition of exemplifying Brown’s mission to prepare alumni for lives of "usefulness and reputation."

Alessandro è il Direttore di Ashoka Italia. Appassionato di movimenti sociali e internazionali, dopo aver studiato in Italia, Canada e Regno Unito, si è specializzato in Politica e Comunicazione alla London School of Economics. La sua carriera inizia a Londra nel campo delle politiche sociali dove ha lavorato sia per il Governo Britannico che per compagnie private come Google, Samsung e RBSH su temi  rivolti a bambini e giovani ma anche ai loro genitori. Tornato in Italia nel 2011 ha dato vita alla propria agenzia di comunicazione e ricerca, con un focus  sull’educazione al corretto uso dei social media per i giovanissimi, per insegnanti e genitori. E’ diventato anche il direttore di European Alternatives, una ONG che si occupa di diritti umani. Nel 2014 è stato scelto da Ashoka per far nascere Ashoka Italia che nel 2015 é partita a tutti gli effetti in Italia, con la selezione dei primi fellow e la creazione di una squadra di lavoro.