Linda has served as President and currently the Executive Director of the National Lighthouse Museum. Driven by her determination or frustration to right injustices, she seeks to identifying problems and creates movements to successfully facilitate change. This can be noted over and over again in her career as she wrote grants or advocated to find support for societal issues such as building a playground for the disabled, organizing through Soroptimist Internationals’ local Clubs a Domestic Violence Awareness bookmark campaign entitled: Loves Me…Loves Me Not… educating young women and girls on positive relationships; initiating the development of a Bill for Therapeutic Recreation Licensure in New York State, working on environmental issues or most recently reviving the National Lighthouse Museum and advocating to maintain the Museum on Staten Island.

Possessing Bachelor and Masters’ degrees in Liberal Arts & Education from the College of Staten Island and a 6^th. Yr Certificate in the Administration of Recreation & Leisure Services as well as a Certificate in Philanthropy and Fundraising both from NYU…Ms. Dianto has developed a strong career in education, management and administration of programs, teaching from early childhood to college- level students and fundraising through the writing of numerous grants proposals, special events and other activities to raise funding to achieve her goals.

Known throughout the years amongst her colleagues and the Staten Island and NYS communities as a strong advocate and a pro-active administrator, she has continued to be a visionary in identifying problems and finding solutions; always enjoying using her motivational skills to identify issues, set goals and drive programs and people to successfully reach them.

In addition to her extensive career in administration and management, teaching, program development and fundraising, Linda has also enjoyed the value of developing collaborative relationships throughout her life. Most recently, in her ongoing roles with the National Lighthouse Museum, she saw the need to learn more about the maritime and lighthouses worlds, thus immersing herself in maritime and museum conferences, seeking out the support of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, including involvement in the City of Water Day; the NY & NJ Waterfront Coalition and the Coalition of Historic Ships in NYC. She has also developed a strong bond with the World Lighthouse Society/ WLS; the United States Lighthouse Society/ USLHS and the American Lighthouse Coordinating Committee/ALCC amongst other lighthouse-related associations.

Avid travelers, she and her husband have focused their vacations around lighthouses to gain a better grasp and appreciation of their locations, construction, stories of their keeper’s and the navigational history of each one, thoroughly appreciating the individual uniqueness, history and beauty of each lighthouse visited. In outreaching the Museum community, she has already attended two Museum-related conferences and several training programs to enhance her museum administration education.

As a strong advocated of history, particularly of Staten Island, she and her husband live in an historic house on Brady’s Pond, Grasmere. They’ve enjoyed collecting antiques and have an extensive collection of Staten Island memorabilia amassed through the years. Ironically, their 100 year old house was once owned by the Durkee family, manufacturers of Durkee Navigational Equipment, Inc., once located in Grasmere.

Ms. Dianto has successfully been involved in raising over 5.7 million dollars in funding and plans to continue her fundraising efforts to develop a first class National Lighthouse Museum dedicated to preservation and education of lighthouse history worldwide.