Diane M. Robertson

Diane M. Robertson lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, where she is a proprietor of a horticultural design firm and plays an integral role in the state’s voting rights initiative. She is an award-winning documentary film producer and serves on nonprofit boards for arts and civic organizations that include the North Carolina Humanities Council, Playmakers Repertory Company, East Coast Greenways, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, and the NAACP. She has committed her time and efforts to the boards of Democracy North Carolina, and the Southern Documentary Fund, where she also served as Interim Executive Director. She also served as the Director of Development for the American Dance Festival. Ms. Robertson was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and grew up in Queens, NY. She studied history at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio and pursued a graduate degree in Latin American history at Indiana University. She lived in the Rio Grande Valley, before moving to North Carolina, where she raised her family. She is motivated every day by her belief that she should leave the world a better place for her grandchildren and future generations.