ABOUT US
DIANE & NINA
ABOUT the CURATORS OF “LITTLE KNOWN FACTS”
Diane’s journey of peeling back the little known facts about the soldiers of color in World War II and the liberation of concentration camps and the Holocaust, began as a result of a conversation her father was having with his fellow WWII veterans. She heard her father say, “I heard they treated the Jews terribly,” and there was silence, no one filled in the details; that sparked her curiosity and remained in her thoughts for decades.
She shared this memory with Nina Segal, who suggested “let’s……” and the rest is now our “shared experience.”
Diane is a Native Harlem New Yorker now living in Raleigh, North Carolina. Graduate of Fordham University-Marymount and an emerging poet and artist.
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As Nina was retiring from her career as a Clinical Social Worker, George Floyd was murdered. WHY was he murdered by Chauvin in full view of bystanders? Why did he and his partners ignore the public plea to let him breathe? She joined the Racial Justice Group seeking answers, and began to study about how Racism impacts all of us.
Growing up soon after the end of the Holocaust and WWII, her internalized Racism developed into prejudices and beliefs. Her childhood in the 1950s in Miami, Florida, formed her view of Americans of African ancestry and “others.” She explored the subtle impacts of the modeled Racist behaviors and actions of family, friends, educators and religious leaders. Cracking through her resistance, and seeing her true beginnings, led to her commitment to work to dismantle Racism by working alongside all Jews and non-Jews of every ethnicity. Nina’s goal is to continue to uncover untold truths in American and World history.
Nina attended Columbia University and is a graduate of Ohio State University. She lives with her husband in Raleigh, North Carolina.