Our Team
Ronald Logan
Executive Director
Ronald Logan is the Executive Director of the PROUT Institute, where he is engaged in the Institute’s training programs and in implementing its local development projects. He is the principal author of PROUT: A New Paradigm of Development and is a frequent contributor to the PROUT Journal. In 1993, he co-authored the Plan for the Economic Development of Khabarovsk Krai on the Basis of PROUT, a project undertaken at the invitation of the Vice-Governor of Khabarovsk Krai in Far East Russia. He has helped draft several policy papers for the Global PROUT Policy Parliament and developed the Institute’s Community Transformations Training program. His new book, “A New Interpretation of Revolution”, is scheduled for publication in 2018. Currently he is teaching an online 6 session course called “PROUT: A New Social Philosophy for a new Era“. He is also the founder and program director of the spiritual center Dharmalaya, which has as its mission “to promote dharma holistically in personal, social and ecological spheres of life.”
Michele Renée
Program Coordinator & Community Outreach Director
Michele Renée uses skill and expertise gained from over two decades of high school social studies teaching and 15 years of running programs at Dharmalaya to inform her work at the PROUT Institute. Together with Ronald Logan, Michele developed the Community Transformations Program. She is responsible for communications, social networking, and program coordination. Her inspiration comes from mentoring and learning from the young people that participate in Institute programs, and connecting the points of light while weaving the web of a new society. Her background includes a B.A. in geography and anthropology, as well as archaeology, and aerial photography work in the Caribbean and North Africa. She manages the Dharmalaya Center.
Jason Schreiner
President
Jason Schreiner is CEO and Executive Fellow of Green Island USA, which provides contextual research, strategic analysis, and visionary insight for supporting integrated development projects, green transition initiatives, and a green circular economy. He regularly presents on P.R. Sarkar’s theories of neohumanism, PROUT, and aesthetic science, and is currently completing a book manuscript titled Philosophy of Neohumanism: Life, Love, and Liberation for All Beings, and developing a reading guide for Sarkar’s The Liberation of Intellect: Neohumanism. Jason formerly served for many years as Associate Director of the Teaching Engagement Program at the University of Oregon and has taught numerous courses for the UO Environmental Studies Program. He also brings years of experience in organic farming and community-based NGOs to his work.
Clare Strawn
Strategic Development & Learning
Clare Strawn puts her PhD in Urban Studies and Master’s in Education to work using collaborative action research to empower communities to learn from their practices. She has decades of community development and activism from early feminism to community control of housing, solidarity with liberation movements, women’s literacy in South Africa, and educational equity regionally and internationally. “I am a bridge builder; creativity and innovation live at the edges, where different worlds meet. Spanning resources, building capacity through partnerships, and healing social divides through connection bridge the road of my diverse life and academic experiences.”
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