Hello, my name is Diana Riedel and I am Athabaskan, Eyak, and Irish. I have been sewing with my mom, Monica, since the age of seven. During high school I did a four year apprenticeship with her. Later I studied and graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a BA in Rural Development, with minors in Native Art and Alaska Native studies.  I now own and make all the products for Dineega Furs during the winter months, and commercial fish during the summer in my hometown of Cordova, Alaska. I enjoy spending time with my daughter, Kiley Rae.  We love playing on the ocean, fishing, camping, hiking, traveling, and visiting with friends.

My mother, Monica Riedel, is Athabascan from Kaltag, Alaska. She started Dineega Furs with a pair of baby booties for me, and later went on to become a master skinsewer with a unique fancy parka style. She learned how to skin sew from her grandma Lizzy Semaken, and also trained at David Green Furs.  Now my mom runs the Alaska Native Harbor Seal Commission, a nonprofit organization, who's missions is "To ensure that harbor seals remain an essential cultural,spiritual,and nutritional element of our traditional way of life, and to promote the health of harbor seals in order to carry forward the cultural, spiritual, and nutritional traditions of Alaska Natives."