Diane Robertson is an award-winning documentary producer, who believes her role is to leave the world a better place for her children and grandchildren. This belief motivates and propels her work as a community organizer, activist, and film producer. She was a producer for documentary films, While I Breathe, I Hope (2018) and SURGE (2020), and No Time To Fail (2022). She serves on nonprofit boards for progressive and arts organizations and is a past board member of the Southern Documentary Fund and served as interim director in 2016. She studies history at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and Latin American history at Indiana University.