Diane Guerrero

Diane is an American citizen, born in New Jersey. Her parents and older brother were born in Colombia and were deported when she was 14. In an Op-Ed in the LA Times, she described this: "I came home from school to an empty house. Lights were on and dinner had been started, but my family wasn't there. Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.".

I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.