Artist Bio
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 been a preschool director, an applied behavioral therapist for kids on the autism spectrum, a therapeutic horseback-riding instructor for children and adults with disabilities, and the Managing Director of a national/international nonprofit. Ms. Tate serves on the board of Palmetto Hope Network (www.palmettohopenetwork.org) in Charleston, SC, serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence and volunteers in her local Bridgeport, CT community.
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, Under the Radar: When Truth Hides in Plain Sight, where she speaks on her own experience with domestic/sexual violence, addiction, and recovery. 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.