Ronald E. Koetzsch has a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in History of Religions from Harvard University. He has taught at the secondary school and college levels and has been a senior instructor at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School for over twenty years. For many years he was senior writer at the East West Journal (now Natural Health magazine). He is founding and current editor of Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education and is a teacher at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, California.