Diane Hatz, founder and executive director of Change Food and founder of the Change Food Video Library, is a creative marketing expert and events innovator who raises awareness about problems and solutions within the food and farming system while encouraging individuals to create their own change. From 2011-2015 she was the founder, organizer and host of TEDxManhattan "Changing the Way We Eat."
Diane, who has dedicated 20 years to making positive change in the food industry, admits that in some ways she still doesn't understand "how people can look at profit and greed over [the wellbeing of] their neighbors." And yet, it's still happening every day in our food system, a fact that gets Diane, as she puts it, "pissed off and passionately involved." Currently she is working hard to bridge the divide between urban "eaters" and rural "producers," but she says this disconnect is not as simple as it once was.