Diana Riviera, PhD

Diana Riviera is a first-generation Chicana motherscholar, writer, and poet. She is an award-winning part-time faculty member at Capella University’s School of Psychology, teaching graduate students and serving as a dissertation chair. She also teaches at Nova Southeastern University (NSU), where she earned her PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. She’s a senior editor at The Qualitative Report. Her research focuses on single mothers, U.S./Mexico borderlands, and identity. Diana has published in several academic journals and coauthored a chapter in The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions (University of Arizona Press).