Diana Franklin is tenured teaching faculty and Director of the Center for Computing Education and Diversity at UC Santa Barbara. Franklin received her Ph.D. from UC Davis in 2002. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and an inaugural recipient of the NCWIT faculty mentoring award. She was an assistant professor (2002-2007) and associate professor (2007) of Computer Science at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, during which she held the Forbes Chair (2002-2007). Her research interests include parallel programming and architecture, computing education, and ethnic and gender diversity in computing.