Ortiz, Dianna

LC control no.	n 2002104119
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Ortiz, Dianna *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States Guatemala
Located	Washington (D.C.)
Birth date	1958-09-02
Death date	2021-02-19
Place of birth	Colorado Springs (Colo.)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Field of activity	Monastic and religious life Missions Human rights Peace movements
Affiliation	Ursulines Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International Pax Christi USA Assisi Community
Profession or occupation	Nuns Missionaries Human rights workers Pacifists
Found in	The blindfold's eyes, c2002: E-CIP t.p. (Sister Dianna Ortiz) data sheet (American Ursuline; missionary in Guatemala) Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 22, 2021 (in obituary dated Feb. 19, 2021: Dianna Ortiz; Catholic nun. The Guatemalan military's abduction, gang rape and torture of Sister Ortiz--who died Feb. 19 at 62 in Washington--became a global news story. Settling in Washington, Sister Ortiz became a prominent advocate of survivors of state-sanctioned violence and helped campaign to expose classified U.S. documents showing American links to human-rights abuses in Guatemala. As an outgrowth of Sister Ortiz's work for the nonprofit Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA, she started a project in 1998 that became the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International. Dianna Mae Ortiz was born in Colorado Springs on Sept. 2, 1958. In 1977, she entered the Ursuline novitiate at Mount Saint Joseph in Maple Mount, Ky. She moved to Guatemala after teaching kindergarten in Kentucky. Last year, Sister Ortiz was named deputy executive director of Pax Christi USA, the American branch of the international Catholic peace movement. She lived in Washington at the Assisi Community, a Catholic community of lay and religious men and women)
Associated language	eng