Haydee Diaz

Haydee Diaz began her career with CRS in 2015 as Business Development Manager for CRS El Salvador and Honduras. She joined CRS Uganda in April 2018 as the Head of Programs and since August 2021 she is the Country Representative for Honduras and the Caribbean Zone.

Between 2007 and 2015, she was the leader of two USAID-funded crime and violence prevention and youth education programs in El Salvador.

Haydee is a champion of local leadrship. She was the Chief of Party of a pioneering consortium of five locally-led orgainzations implementing a $42 million USAID project. More recently, she leads CRS Hondruas' capacity strengthening projects to help local organizations access funding, as well as build their operations and technical experience and capabilities.

Previously, she was the director of development for California Rural Legal Assistance, a legal rights organization serving California’s most vulnerable communities in 22 offices across the state. Haydee has an MA in Educational Administration and Social Policy from Harvard University and a BA in Latin American History from Santa Clara University. She was born in Cuba and raised in San Jose, California.

Haydee is married with three children ages, 4, 14, and 16.