For over 30 years, Dianne Post has been a staunch advocate for the rights of the most vulnerable, from battered women and children to persons of African descent, to the Roma of Europe. Her commitment to racial equality, social justice and LGBTQ+ rights and the passage of the ERA is fervent and deep-seeded. Most noteworthy is her pro bono work in these critical areas.

Dianne represented battered women and children in the Phoenix area for 18 years before beginning work abroad on sex-based violence. She was the Director of the Domestic Violence Project at Community Legal Services here in Phoenix and a founder of the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence. With the coalition, Dianne produced the Battered Mother’s Testimony Project: Violation of Human Rights in Family Court, along with the Confidentiality Manual for Domestic Violence Services Providers in Arizona under State and Federal Law, and a Lay Advocate Manual to those working in the field, including one for the Navajo Nation.  

She argued or briefed at the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court (AZ and US) on kinship placement for persons of African descent, race-based employment discrimination, child custody, racial profiling, protection of the records of battered women shelters, child abuse, and racial discrimination in a school district primarily against Native Americans. She sued the county attorney for refusing to prosecute cases of violence against women. He reversed the policy in four days. 

Dianne was on the Board of the Maricopa County or State NAACP from 1993 to date. She represented the NAACP on the Arizona Supreme Court Task Force on Fair Justice for All: Court-ordered Fines, Penalties, Fees, and Pretrial Release Policies for three years. She has been active in Central Phoenix Inez Casiano NOW chapter and State NOW since the 1980s.

Dianne has also spoken and published widely about human rights from the local to the international against prostitution, pornography and trafficking. She was a founder of the Stop Stoning Campaign, Iran 2006-2007 and campaigns against surrogacy.

Dianne Post is currently facilitator of the ERA Task Force AZ and shepherded to completion the first in the nation comprehensive review of state statutes in order to be in compliance with the 28th Amendment (ERA).  That work is now being replicated by other states. She is on the Board of CPIC NOW as Vice President, on the AZ Board of NOW as the PAC chair, on the AZ State NAACP board as legal counsel, the Legal Director of Secular Communities for AZ and Legal Committee chair of Uncage and Reunite Families.