Sonya Diehn

Sonya Angelica Diehn completed her B.A.s in Linguistics and Fine Arts at Pitzer College (Claremont, CA) in 1998. A Tucson native and desert rat, she returned to her Arizona hometown in 1999 to work on environmental protection & sustainability, the impacts of globalization, and in alternative media projects. In September of 2000, she co-founded the Arizona Independent Media Center, and continues to produce independent projects. She has been a member of Tucson non-profit video production company Pan Left Productions since 2001, and in July 2003 released her first solo video Oasis Under Siege: A Journey Through the Dying River.

In April of 2004, Sonya left Tucson and her five-year position with the Center for Biological Diversity to travel in South America for a fifteen months. In her journey she continued to produce progressive independent video and work independently as a journalist.
Sonya Diehn is currently based out of Germany and is working on the short documentary The Last American Jaguar.