Diane Litsey received her Masters in Public and Private Management from Birmingham-Southern College, a B.S. in Arts Management from Eastern Michigan University and studied management at Columbia College in Chicago. She became Executive Director of Children's Dance Foundation in 1991. Previous positions include work with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Taste of Los Angeles, the Michigan Festival and the Downriver Council for the Arts in Metro Detroit. Diane serves as Immediate Past President of the board for the Alabama Dance Council and is Board President of the Homewood Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society, a recipient of an Alabama State Council on the Arts Management Fellowship and a graduate of Leadership Birmingham.