Renee Owen, Ed.D

For over 20 years, Dr. Renee Owen has been supporting teachers and educational leaders in personal development and wellness. She is currently Executive Director at Rainbow Community School in Asheville, NC, a holistic, contemplative, P-8 school founded in the 1970’s by leaders in the Sufi movement. She believes that if every child had the opportunity to receive a holistic education, the world would be a far more just and compassionate place. Wanting to share all that holistic education has to offer, Renee co-founded Rainbow Institute in 2014 as an organization for sharing holistic and contemplative educational practices with teachers. Renee’s doctoral degree is from Columbia University’s Teacher College, where she did extensive research on the lived experience of teaching with spiritual pedagogy. She continues to study the link between spiritual practice, neuroscience, and human development for all ages.