Diane Strand founded and launched the nonprofit JDS Creative Academy in Temecula in 2014 with her husband and business partner Scott. Its mission is to inspire, educate and enhance achievement in video production and workforce development by providing job skills and hands-on training in the visual, performing and digital arts.“There was such a need for the arts in the community,” she said. “We were teaching acting classes and getting calls to teach more classes like script writing, video production, backstage production, music, art and musical theater for those that have never done a play before.”Strand said she knew there weren’t enough hours in the day to do it all and that neither she nor Scott had the skills to teach all that was needed so they called upon some indust
