Diane Hatz
Co-Founder & Director, The Glynwood Institute for
Sustainable Food and Farming
Organizer/Host TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat”
As a creative marketing visionary and social entrepreneur, Diane Hatz formulates, develops and implements innovative solutions to problems relating to food and farming. Diane also uses her expertise to raise awareness about, and increase support for, The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming, which launched in April 2010.
The Institute raises public awareness about sustainable food and farming and works to bring the food movement closer. Current work involves research and raising public awareness about food waste and Dinner and Some Ed, a resource guide to having a sustainable dinner party focused on sustainable food and farming videos.
Diane is the host and licensee for TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” – an annual independently-organized TED event around sustainable food and farming.
Previously, as Founder and Director of the nonprofit program Sustainable Table, Diane Hatz developed and managed creative projects to raise awareness and educate consumers about issues surrounding the sustainable food and agriculture movement, while promoting solutions to the problems caused by factory farms.
Diane was Executive Producer of the award-winning, critically acclaimed, animated films The Meatrix, The Meatrix II: Revolting, and The Meatrix II ½ as well as Project and Marketing Director for the Meatrix campaign, both online and off. She was also a founder of the Eat Well Guide, an online consumer directory of sustainably-raised meat and dairy products in the United States and Canada.
Prior to joining GRACE, Diane worked in the music industry in various roles, including marketing, publicity, business affairs and management. She also co-founded, wrote and published The Relay, an independent music magazine on The Who, which is archived in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Diane has an MA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, a BS in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Delaware, and a Minor in Philosophy. She is a student of Tibetan Buddhism and The Dalai Lama.
In 2009, Diane published her first fictional novel Rock Gods of Acht: a music meltdown, available on Amazon and other fine online retailers.
