Christine Renaud

Christine is a social entrepreneur and consultant in consensual education and new media for international NGOs and media companies. She is passionate about the influence of new media on self-directed human potential development. As the CEO and founder of E-180, she aims to create an international movement in which people redefine and reclaim their education.

She has been putting together social ventures since the age of 11. Her previous accomplishments include founding L’Entracte (a youth center), Teranga (an international internship for future teachers), and Contrastes?, a pedagogical photo-exhibition on human rights which has been presented to more than 40,000 Quebec students and won the YMCA Peace Award. She has developed curriculum and educational programs for the Canadian International Development Agency, Amnesty international, Oxfam, StartingBloc, the Government of Japan and participated in the 18th edition of the United Nations Ship for World Youth.

After completing her M.Ed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Frank Knox Fellow in 2007, Christine reoriented her work to harness the power of social media as a tool for human potential development. She worked as a Podcasts Producer for Learning Matters – an education-focused media organization in New York and worked on her first documentary: Love. Hope. Forgiveness. on the role of education in the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Because of her strong need to give back to her community, she is also jury or advisor for many media or education-related organizations, such as the the Emmy Awards for News and Documentaries, the Institute for Humane Education and Forces Avenir. She was recognized in 2006 by L’Actualité Magazine as the Most promising young leader in education in Québec.