Author

Diana Martinez Quintana

Diana Martinez Quintana

Diana Martinez Quintana is a policy entrepreneur at Next100, a startup think tank based in New York City, whose policy work focuses on the intersection between immigration and climate justice. In addition to her work at Next100, Diana has an extensive community organizing background and has done immigration work for the last decade with Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation and Kansas/Missouri Dream Alliance in Kansas City. She first became politically active in 2010 as an Undocumented youth in the Dream Act movement.

OPINION
Diana Martinez Quintana sits with other undocumented youths during a demonstration to demand Congress pass the DREAM Act during summer 2010. (Erin Lea Lowenthal)

Ten years after DACA, undocumented youths in Kansas and across the nation need further change

By: - September 6, 2022

The Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Diana Martinez Quintana is a policy entrepreneur at Next100, a startup think tank, and is from Kansas City. Last week, President Joe Biden moved to codify […]