Renee Owen

Renee's life is in dynamic transition. She is currently Executive Director of Rainbow Community School (RCS), a holistic P-8 school in Asheville, NC, where she has enjoyed 12 rewarding years. This school year she will gain a doctorate degree from Columbia Teacher’s College, once she completes her dissertation on “Teaching as a Spiritual Practice.” She does not plan on remaining as executive director at RCS after she attains her degree, and she has no specific plans! It’s going to be a new adventure. Two years ago, she founded Rainbow Institute, an adult/teacher education arm of RCS. She may continue her leadership of Rainbow Institute, or she may do something else: Consult? Write? Start more schools? Teach at a University? What she knows for certain is that we must bring wellbeing and harmony into our world through education, and that is her mission in life. That’s what feeds her soul.