Renée Comesotti, M.Ed. MEDL, EEC Mentor Coordinator

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Renée invested her early childhood in the Pacific Northwest rescuing worms from puddles, scrumping blackberries and talking to snapdragons. Following a number of years in Ontario working within the cooperative sector, Renée has spent the past two decades overseas as an independent school educator and professional learning facilitator, helping to grow learning communities committed to justice, empathy and delight in discovery. Renée has worked and learned together with her fabulous students and fellow educators in Bolivia, Sudan, DR Congo, Nepal and Mali to develop innovative programs of authentic community engagement and environmental stewardship. From her students, who knew all along, Renée learned the power of experiential education to foster equity, connection and joy learning, and thereby change the world.

Renée has studied and implemented peer and collaborative coaching models on three continents. She holds a Master’s degree in International Education from Endicott College and a Master’s in Education Leadership from High Tech High Graduate School of Education, where her research investigated the function of relational trust in equity-centering mentoring frameworks.

Renée is an avid trekker and reluctant cyclist, and still talks to snapdragons. She and her partner have two grown daughters.