N. Diane Moss is a long time advocate for place-based community change. As such she chooses to live, work and organize in Southeastern San Diego and in Compton, California where she grew up.

Moss has been the Executive Director for Children Having Children, Inc., a youth development organization with a focus on teen pregnancy prevention, for 23 years.

Additionally Moss is working with several groups to address health disparities on the local, state and national level. She is actively involved with efforts to promote the use of the social determinants of health model as a means to achieve health equity. To that end she co-chairs the social determinant of health work group for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders program; and she is involved in national and local discussions on Healthy People 2020.

Her current work with The People’s Produce Project focuses food security. This is a community mobilization effort, to create, collaborate and coordinate efforts to grow and distribute fresh fruits and vegetables in southeastern San Diego.

Moss has been a volunteer with the American Cancer Society for three years and will chair the Relay For Life in southeastern San Diego 2010. She is the Vice Chairperson for San Diego Black Health Associates; and is actively involved with Overcoming Gangs & Beyond, a community-based violence prevention program.