Mimi Malayan

Mimi Malayan was born and raised in San Francisco for the first decade of her life. Her family then moved to Europe, the Asian sub-continent and Brazil. Mimi returned to the U.S. to attend George Washington University, where she majored in French Language and Literature. She received her Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of California and went on to practice her trade for 20 years, focusing her professional career on urban parks, plazas and playground design in the San Francisco Bay Area. After finding a box of papers dedicated to Diana Apcar in her uncle’s apartment in 2002, Mimi discovered another interest—uncovering her great-grandmother's life story. Wanting to share it with as many people as possible, Mimi produced the film, The Stateless Diplomat.