Diara manages the mock interview program for Emory Law students and does career advising for Emory Law School alumni. She began her career at The Cochran Firm in Los Angeles specializing in plaintiff rights, civil rights and mass torts. She went on to perform legal consulting and research for several organizations including The National Museum of African-American Music, The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and The International African-American Museum. Diara earned her JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she was the managing editor of the Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies and recipient of the Dee Anthony Scholarship award. She graduated from Spelman College with a degree in Psychology, where she was a member of the Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program.