Diana Mihaela Baranga-Mazhar
Co-Founder & Executive Director | UpstartED
Diana Mihaela Baranga-Mazhar is a learning experience designer, educator, and social
entrepreneur. As the Executive Director of UpstartED, a Canadian education
nonprofit, Diana leads the development of curricula, programs, and learning content
for individuals in equity-deserving communities by applying best practices from
critical participatory action research and liberatory design. She also spearheads
the ongoing development of UpstartED's Changemaker Framework, a pedagogical approach
that has been shown to foster an increased sense of identity, belonging, and agency
among 5,000+ youth and the educators and caregivers in their lives. Having earned
her Master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Diana believes
that while not everyone is a designer by trade, innovative ideas can come from
anywhere — and in fact, they should.
www.upstarted.org
