By day, Diana is the Internet & Communication Technologies Coordinator at Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena, CA. At Westridge, she teaches Web research skills to grades 4-12 and advises Spyglass, the school newspaper.

And by night, Diana blogs for her site BeTwinned.

Diana has taught for nearly 18 years in a variety of educational settings and grade levels as a technology coordinator, reading specialist, writing coach, literacy teacher, English teacher and history teacher. Diana holds a B.A. in English and an M.S. in Secondary Education, both from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Diana’s writing career started in 2004, when she left a perfectly good job in order to attend USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, where she was a Dean’s Scholar and a Carnegie-Knight fellow.

With support and encouragement from her husband and children, Diana achieved her childhood dream and completed her master's in journalism in May 2006, when she also won the Outstanding Graduate Student in Online Journalism Award.

While at USC, Diana was managing editor of the Online Journalism Review’s readers’ blog. She was also a features intern at the Daily Breeze in Torrance, CA and a fellow in a Carnegie-Knight reporting initiative called News 21.

Diana lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, a writer, graphic artist and editorial cartoonist, and their 5-year-old twin daughters.

Diana can be reached at Diana [at] DayReporter.com.