Diane Wittner has expertise in holistic education, community arts & creative advocacy.  Starting with a 2012 class at Maryland Women's Business Center, and inspired by her small yet humming garden sanctuary & volunteer aviary, she invented beneficial, everyday cleaning items using her herbs. In 2015, she launched Echotopia, the region's first refill station & biodiversity-building zero waste business. Although she has a passion for teaching and mentoring young people of all ages, her favorite pedagogical behavior is to simply "be the change". After all, the next generation is always watching. Diane is a loong distance train traveler, naturalist, music maker & movement person. She seeks to glitter in reply to the marvels and still-magical coastlines and waterways of the Chesapeake Bay and Mid-Atlantic watershed, and to her family's New York City Atlantic Ocean places: Rockaway and Brighton Beach.