Diane Elder is a magazine publisher/editor and an award-winning former television
journalist and published author who is also adept at fundraising. She is fully
responsible for launching Palisades Neighbors magazine and developing a funding
base through sponsorships and advertising. Diane is co-founder and President of
Remembering All our Heroes, RAH, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to memorializing
those who gave their lives in service to their country and those living who are in need
of assistance. As such, she has raised and dispersed thousands of dollars to assist
veterans seeking higher education and to fund a memorial to African-American hero
of WWI, Henry Johnson, soon to be erected at the Los Angeles National Cemetery.
Diane earned a Bachelor's degree in Journalism (emphasis International Journalism)
with honors from the University of Southern California and studied Government and
Public Policy at Harvard University. She has been involved with the U.S.- Mexico
Chamber of Commerce for two decades interviewing Mexican officials and
businesspersons on binational business, trade, and border issues and has
contributed articles to the USMCOC publication, “Alliance.”
As a producer, reporter, and assignment editor for KCAL Channel 9 News and as the
host of “Two With You” on Channel 2, KCBS, Diane had the opportunity to interview
leaders ranging from the Mayor of Los Angeles to the President of Mexico. Later she
worked for Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and wrote many of his speeches and
op-ed pieces for the Los Angeles Times and other publications.
Diane was born in Monterey Park, a suburb of Los Angeles, of parents who were
second generation Americans. Her grandparents immigrated from Mexico during the
Mexican Revolution, leaving behind their rancho and interests in the El Tigre and Los
Pinos mines. Diane still has family in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora. One of her goals is to write her family history.