ABOUT
DIASPORA was initially launched in 2021 by journalist Dino-Ray Ramos with the intention of being a Hollywood trade publication to focus on underrepresented voices in the film and TV industry.
In 2025, DIASPORA pivoted and has started to pave a road as a nonprofit media platform dedicated to amplifying untold stories and underrepresented voices in arts and culture through insightful journalism, education, and community engagement and advocacy.
Media should inform, challenge the status quo, and inspire minds. Media should also be governed and democratized by the readers and those who build culture and community from the ground up rather than corporate entities that are limited in vision and are constrained by commerce.
While entertainment publications and media platforms chase trends to serve the manufactured moments of fleeting gratification, DIASPORA looks to thoughtfully mine art and untold stories to help drive our culture.
Through art and culture, we connect stories to the human spirit, building bridges across experiences and bolstering dialogue that sparks change. DIASPORA sees film, TV, books, music, art, and other forms of media as both a mirror and a catalyst – a reflection of an array of realities and a force for a more just, inclusive, and imaginative future.
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ABOUT DINO-RAY RAMOS
Dino-Ray Ramos is an award-winning journalist and podcast host. Spending most of his life in Texas, he studied Journalism at Texas A&M University, where he earned his degree.
In 2021, he launched the alternative media platform DIASPORA. Prior to that, he served as an editor at Deadline where he carved a niche out for himself, reporting on inclusion, diversity and representation in film and TV. He created, produced, and hosted the GLAAD Media Award-winning New Hollywood Podcast and his work has been seen in Vogue, Entertainment Tonight, Bustle, Paste Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, among others. In addition to writing, Ramos has also done DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) consulting work for GLAAD, Amazon Studios, MGM, Orion, Lionsgate, the Center For Asian American Media (CAAM), the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE), Visual Communications, among other companies. He is a member of GALECA (The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics), the Critics Choice Association and was part of Gold House’s A100 List which recognizes the most impactful Asians in the country.