Diane Hatz – Founder/Director,
Sustainable Table; Executive Producer, The Meatrix
As Founder and Director of Sustainable Table, Diane Hatz conceives of
and develops creative projects to raise awareness and educate
consumers about issues surrounding sustainable food and farming,
while promoting solutions to the problems caused by factory
farms. She is a creative marketing visionary who uses new media,
pop culture, humor and entertainment to educate consumers in
both traditional and nontraditional ways.
Diane is 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 is a Founder of the Eat Well
Guide, an online consumer directory of sustainably-produced
food in the United States and Canada.
Previously, Diane was Director of the GRACE Factory Farm
Project, author of the Project's Guide to Confronting a CAFO,
and webmaster for the organization's web site. 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. She recently published her first fictional
novel and is working on her next book. She is committed to
sustainability and to helping build community through food.
Dawn Brighid – Marketing Manager
Interested in nutrition and
healthy eating for over 20 years, Dawn has joined forces with
Moopheus and crew to promote the sustainable food
movement. Most recently, Dawn worked as a Holistic Health
Counselor and was trained at the Institute for Integrative
Nutrition. As a health counselor, she educated people to
balance their lives through nutrition and lifestyle
choices. Even then, Dawn shared with her clients that
eating sustainable food is a big part of living a happy, healthy
life. Prior to health counseling, Dawn worked as a project
manager at various financial, communications and fashion
corporations in California and New York. She is happy to
combine her project management background with her love of food
to help people adopt a more sustainable outlook for their
community. Dawn grew up in California and spent summers in
Oregon eating vegetables out of her Grandparent's garden.
Those fresh vegetables created picky taste buds that love
organic and local foods. Cooking for friends is a passion,
especially after a trip to the Park Slope Food Coop. She is
excited to share Sustainable Table & The Meatrix with everyone!
Patrick Chang – Administrative Assistant
Patrick Chang was introduced to the sustainable food movement
through a viewing of The Meatrix. Impressed by the film's
ability to examine complicated issues using humor and digital
media, he considered it a perfect marriage of entertainment and
activism and joined the team shortly thereafter. With a
background in the visual arts and a film degree from CCNY,
Patrick is utilizing his creativity to find new ways of
spreading awareness about what goes into our food.
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