Angels for Change Board Member

Diane Masiello

Director of Communications

Diane Masiello is a writing teacher and freelance writer. She has been married to her husband, John—an anesthesiologist--for over 25 years and has two teenage daughters. She earned a Ph.D. in English Education from New York University in 2000, and has taught writing at New York University, Nova Southeastern University, and the University of Tampa. She currently teaches at The Academy of the Holy Names. She has served in board positions at a free medical clinic, a local surgery center, and her children’s schools. Diane met Laura Bray through their parish, where they often volunteered together.

Diane joined Angels for Change because she wanted to help tell the organization’s story and the stories of those warriors Angels for Change has helped. Diane lost her mother-in-law to pancreatic cancer in 1998, a dear friend to an aggressive breast cancer in 2023, and one of her daughter’s middle-school classmates to osteosarcoma in 2018. She has seen many of her friends beat cancer, as well. She knows receiving a diagnosis is hard enough; to compound that difficulty with news that the medicine the patient needs is on shortage is a cruelty that she is passionate about eliminating from patient’s lives. Diane has also seen her husband deal with drug shortages in his profession as an anesthesiologist, and knows how much stress these shortages put on doctors, as well. Laura Bray says that “No patient should ever hear, and no doctor should ever have to say, ‘We don’t have the medicine to save your life.’” Having witnessed the struggles of both patients and doctors caught in drug shortage situations, she is committed to ending them once and for all.