A View of Dia: Past, Present and Future

We asked Oralia Garza de Cortés to write about her role in Dia's history, her work with Día California, and her dreams for Dia's future.

PASTIt was the mid nineties, Bill Clinton was our President, and the Spanish sociologist and prolific author and scholar Manuel Castells had just authored the first of his three volume Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (1996), coining the term 'fourth world' to refer to pockets of communities in first world countries, places like the barrios and ...