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Cooling Portland Coordinator

Diana Aguilar Vazquez (she/they) is an Indigenous-Mexican (Mixteca) person who immigrated to the US from Mexico along with her parents and brother. Diana is a Project Coordinator with Cooling Portland at Verde, her work revolves around providing portable ac units and services to BIPOC, low-income marginalized communities in Portland. Diana is passionate about social justice/ anti-racism, immigrants rights and creating equity within her community. This passion is a product of her growing up in impoverished majority Mexican/Central “American” immigrant communities and her experiences with the school-to-prison pipeline, domestic violence, systemic racism and other barriers faced by undocumented BIPOC. Diana has taken part in activist movements advocating for immigrant rights, anti-racism/human rights and environmentalism. Diana also forms part of NAYA’s Business Enterprise program and Indigenous Marketplace which highlights BIPOC artists in the PNW. Diana is the owner of @diosa.arte and creates wearable art to promote cultural representation using different mediums.

Diana enjoys spending her free time with her daughter, creating art, participating in culturally specific community events, collecting vinyl, classic car shows and working on her Lowrider project, a 1990 Lincoln Town Car.

Diana Aguilar Vazquez (ella/ellos) es una persona Mexicana de la descendencia indigena (Mixteca) que emigró a los Estados Unidos desde México con sus padres y hermano. Diana es coordinadora del proyecto Cooling Portland, su trabajo con Verde se trata de proveer unidades de aire acondicionado y servicios a comunidades de bajos recursos, marginadas BIPOC. Diana es apasionada sobre causas como justicia social/ anti-racismo, derechos de inmigrantes y crear equidad dentro de su comunidad. Esta pasión es producto de su crianza entre comunidades en cual la mayoría son Mexicanos/Centro “americanos” y sus experiencias con racismo sistémico (school-to-prison pipeline), violencia doméstica, y otras barreras que confrontadas por inmigrantes y gente BIPOC. Diana ha formado parte en movimientos activistas los cuales defienden derechos de humanitarios, antirracismo, derechos de inmigrantes y ambientalismo. Diana también es parte del programa Business Enterprise que ofrece NAYA y Indigenous Marketplace (Mercado Indigena) cuales destacan artistas BIPOC en el Noroeste Pacifico. Diana es dueña de @diosa.arte y crea arte usable para promover representación cultural usando diferentes medios. En su tiempo libre Diana disfruta pasar tiempo con su hija, crear arte, participar en eventos culturales comunitarios, colectar discos vinilo, exhibiciones de carros clásicos y seguir construyendo su proyecto Lowrider un carro 1990 Lincoln Town Car.