Currently a Master’s of Arts student in the Clinical Mental Health program at Hood College, Dianisha graduated from Goucher College with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Psychology. She is a member of the counseling honor society, Chi Sigma Iota, and the American Counseling Association. As the daughter of a two U.S. Air Force officers, she is interested in serving military families and veterans, especially women in the military. Additionally, she intends to work with those grieving and those with traumatic experiences. To that purpose, Dianisha is pursuing the recently added certificate in Trauma, Crisis, Grief and Loss offered by Hood College. She expects to graduate in May of 2025.
Outside academia, Dianisha would like to pursue projects of advocacy for changing perceptions surrounding disenfranchised grief, such as pregnancy loss and SIDS deaths, unrecognized partnerships, and military relocations. Increased support at the counseling and community level is needed for currently unrecognized losses, as well as research into marginalized populations’ experiences with grief and mourning. She would like to explore ways that counselors can approach decolonizing the counseling research and practice to improve outcomes for those disadvantaged by our current systems.