Diana Peck

Diana Peck is part of the early public access and humanistic media lineage recognized by the community media field. In 1983, she received the ACM's Dirk Koning-George Stoney Award for Humanistic Communication, an honor given to work that reflects the deeper civic and human purpose of media access.

Her recognition came during the formative years of public access, when communities, educators, advocates, and media makers were still defining what access television could become. Diana's profile represents that early humanistic thread in community media: the belief that local media should serve people, deepen participation, and make room for voices and stories that commercial broadcasting often left outside the frame.

Her inclusion in Community Media Voices connects her to the origin generation of people who helped define community media as more than technical production or cable capacity.