Diana I. Santiago is a Senior Attorney and Director of Forward!~¡Adelante!~Avante!~展望!~Avanse!~ Tiến về phía trước!~ التقدم في الدراسة~Horey!: Advancing the Education Rights of Immigrant and Multilingual Children. In this role, Attorney Santiago offers education advocacy and training to immigrant and migrant parents and community groups in Massachusetts and participates in systemic advocacy at the school district, state agency, and legislative levels to remove access barriers to education for immigrant, migrant, and multilingual children.

Santiago also leads the Immigrant and Multilingual Children with Disabilities Coalition, a statewide coalition of multilingual and multicultural special education attorneys and advocates with a focus on language access in education, barriers to immigrant parent participation in the special education process, addressing the needs of English learners with disabilities, and the disproportionate use of exclusionary discipline on English learners.