Diya Khanna

Diya Khanna is a Global Diversity, Equity, Inclusion consultant, keynote speaker, and workshop facilitator with 20 year’s experience in profit, non-profit, and tech. She worked at Amazon and Amazon Web Services where she led global Conversations on Race and Ethnicity, an annual internal conference for 1.3 million employees. Her work is about creating DEI strategy, program execution, and reporting to stakeholders. She has developed 14 Employee Resource Groups and led courses on the Future of Work and How to Rebuild Workplaces from an Intersectional Lens. She is a proven subject matter expert and is known for alternating between big vision and tactical implementation.

Khanna has a life-long mission of increasing access and opportunity of people across race, ethnicity, nationality, gender identity, accessibility, sexual orientation, social class, military, status, religion, age, and language in every professional industry. She worked as a DEI consultant in Canada, Japan, Singapore, Germany and the US. She was a DEI columnist for The Seattle Times, a board member of the Asians@Amazon global board and was appointed to the Seattle Women’s Commission in 2018.

Khanna received her Bachelor of Journalism from Ryerson University and Masters of Education with a focus on Curriculum Development from the Comparative and International Development Education Centre at University of Toronto. She has published papers on Anti-Racism Curriculum and Multicultural Education.