Diane Guerreo’s sat down with SHE Media CEO, Samantha Skey, for a keynote at #BlogHer19 Creators Summit in Brooklyn, New York.

Diane kicks off her keynote by telling the audience that her last name, Guerrero, means warrior.

She shared with the audience the up’s and down she experienced as her family was separated through deportation and advised that you should always ask for help when you need it.

When asked, “What roles or projects you’ve been on have shaped what you want to be or do?” Diane responded that being on "Orange is The New Black" taught her good manners and good behaviors when it came to storytelling. It made her proud of who she is and where she came from.

She also brings up that her other roles in "Jane the Virgin" and "Doom Patrol" have made her want to produce and write.

She left the audience feeling inspired reminding them that many stars, including Oprah, started late. She quoted her manager, Josh Taylor, who always says, “Throw your hat in the ring and see what happens.”

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Diane Guerrero is an actress, author and activist who is well known for starring as “Maritza Ramos” on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, for which she received three Screen Actors Guild awards. Additionally she currently stars as “Crazy Jane” in DC Comic’s Doom Patrol and received a 2019 Imagen Award nomination for “Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series.” Her other credits include playing “Lina” on The CW’s Jane the Virgin. Sofia in the CBS comedy series Superior Donuts and she can be heard as the voice of “Jessica Cruz/Green Lantern” in Warner Bros. animated film, Justice League vs. The Fatal Five. In 2015, Guerrero was named a White House Ambassador for Citizenship and Naturalization. She is an outspoken advocate for commonsense, comprehensive immigration reform and has worked with Immigrant Legal Resource Center and Mi Familia Vota, a nonpartisan Latino civic engagement organization to promote citizenship and voter registration. Additionally, that year she was named as one of Variety’s “10 Latino’s to Watch.” Guerrero is also an acclaimed author and her memoir titled, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided, was released by Henry Holt publishing in 2016. She released her second book, My Family Divided, in 2018.

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