Career
From 2002-2012, Diaz served as chair and executive director of the Hip-Hop Association, and produced the H2O International Film Festival and Hip-Hop Education Summit. In 2008, Diaz was the recipient of the Catherine B. Reynolds Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship. In 2010, Diaz founded the Hip-Hop Education Center for research, evaluation, and training.
Diaz was a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, and a Hip-Hop Scholar at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York Public Library.
In September 2014, Diaz was selected as a Community Scholar at Columbia University.
