Diane Gold has always worked on creating an environment that will facilitate the people in it. She has created a turntable mixing program for emotionally disturbed teens in a NYS school system; cloned the program for developmentally challenged. In 1986, she developed a classroom environment that School of Rock, years later, emulated where special students played rock and roll, motown or jazz, etc. She is the mother of  two, the ultimate gift. She focuses on teaching people to see the beauty and the power within and without (violence).