Diane Tate

Diane Tate has a bachelor’s degree in special education from Greensboro College and a master’s degree in social science from the Citadel. She has worked in the nonprofit arena her entire career, focusing on organizations that serve in different ways: as a preschool director, an applied behavioral therapist for kids on the autism spectrum, and a therapeutic horseback-riding instructor for children and adults with disabilities. Ms. Tate serves on the Boards of The Palmetto Hope Network (www.palmettohopenetwork.org) and R.E.A.P.- Rural Education Advocacy Project (www.reapgh.org) and volunteers in her local community. Along the journey, she has always appreciated the chance to serve, sharing her skills to increase the opportunities for those living on the margins of our society. 

Ms. Tate has unlocked her creative side as an artist with her studio at The Nest Arts Factory in Bridgeport, CT, a poet, and a writer with the publishing of her memoir. She is the proud mom to a grown daughter, who reminds her every day of what is important and she is a firm believer that you can’t change what you don’t acknowledge. That acknowledgment begins, for her, with a long look in the mirror.