Team

Meet our dedicated team members.

Diana N. Derige, DrPH

Chief Strategy Officer

Dr. Diana N Derige is Birth Center Equity’s (BCE) Chief Strategy Officer, where she leads the articulation and implementation of BCE’s strategic vision through burgeoning enterprises including the Beloved Economy Studios to accelerate progress towards BCE’s audacious goal. Dr Derige brings not only her vision and passion to BCE but over the past twenty years of experience designing and managing private philanthropic, government, and non-profit programs. Diana has held numerous positions most recently as the Vice President of Health Equity Strategy at the American Medical Association’s inaugural Center for Health Equity. Throughout her career Diana has supported local and national investments by serving as a convener, collaborator, and catalyst, responsible for nurturing opportunities for affecting positive systemic change in communities. Throughout her career, she has concentrated on promoting public health and social equity for marginalized communities.

Her passion is maternal and infant health with a focus on creating a world where women of color thrive. She was the senior editor of the 2018 Latina Maternal Review and has held positions of adjunct faculty at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and as co-director of the Center for Latina Maternal and Family Health Research at the University of Houston. Dr. Derige also served as a program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust and as National Director of MCH Initiatives at Urban Strategies. Dr. Derige holds a Bachelor’s degree in sociology and women’s studies, a Master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan, and a Doctor of Public Health from the University of North Carolina.