Diana Pinacho-Lopez holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from UNAM. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Chicana & Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on the migration of Afro-Mexican people to the United States. She has worked as a journalist and a digital marketing specialist. She has been involved with various collectives in Mexico whose mission is to raise awareness about the experiences of Black people in Mexico and to fight against racism. In 2022, she was part of the teaching staff for "Filma Afro: Cine en las Aldeas" in 2023. In 2021, she participated as a speaker at the "Teaching Symposium: Developing Afro-Latinx Infused Curriculum" at California State University, San Bernardino. She participated in the seminar "Creating Opportunities Where None Exist: Sessions on Whiteness in Mexico and the Americas," offered by the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in 2020, and contributed to the panel discussion "Afro-Descendant Women in Latin America" ​​in 2021.  As part of her antiracist activism, she gave a lecture titled "Network of Afro-Descendant Women: Spaces for Intersectionality and Struggle" at the HeForShe Gender Equality Forum in October 2021.  Currently, she is a Graduate Assistant in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UNM and a Project Assistant at PNMGC.