Diane Tate

Published Author and Artist

Welcome to my official website! As an author and artist my mission in life is to make lasting change in the world, especially with regard to social and racial justice. I am thrilled to offer my memoir available for order today.

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Organizations Important to Me
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Here4theKids

Abolish guns and fossil fuels

AROC- Arab Resource & Organizing Center

We organize to fight for racial and economic justice and the dignity and liberation of our Arab, and Muslim communities. We work towards the self-determination of our people under attack in Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and across the entire SWANA (South West Asia and and North African) region with the same breath that we fight for our freedoms here in the United States.

Jewish Voice for Peace

Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world. We’re organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all people.

Equal Justice Initiative

The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

About

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.

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Under the Radar: When Truth Hides in Plain Sight

Growing up on the family tree of an American dynasty did not protect Diane Tate from the darker legacies of sexual abuse, addiction, and domestic violence. This story is one of survival in the face of peril, redemption despite self-hatred, and the impact that abusive legacy has on establishing the trajectory of a child's life.

Whether she was walking the streets of her small hometown in North Carolina or being presented to American and international society in the Grand Ballroom of The Plaza Hotel in New York City, her truth was hiding from everyone, including herself. Not only does she trudge through the darkness of alcoholism and an abusive marriage; she takes the reader on a journey of healing, making the choice to stand up for herself when it mattered the most.

Within these pages you will find inspiration in the poetry of Diane's life. You will wince and cheer, laugh and cry, and walk away with the hope that even a life lived in the shadows of your own mind can be brought into the light.

Published by Fulton Books

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Reviews of Under the Radar

Thank you to all who have read Under the Radar and have shared their feelings about the experience.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A compelling story, beautifully told.

Under the Radar is a compelling story, beautifully written. Although the details of her story are specific to her life, it is also, sadly, all too universal. I love the combination of poetry and prose. Each chapter’s poem serves as a reflection on how she she holds, in the present, what she is recounting of her past.

I am thankful that Dee shared her story. I know that everyone will find something they can recognize, and be lifted and inspired by.