René Rochester

Dr. René D. Rochester, EdD, is the CEO of Urban SET Inc. and the designer of PHAT STAR (Preventive Holistic Adolescent Training: Serving Teens at Risk), a program that helps communities address the needs of at-risk teens by providing intervention strategies and resources. In 1999, René was the first African American to earn a doctorate of health education from the University of Texas at Austin. She serves as an adjunct professor at several colleges, universities, and seminaries, and she lives in Franklin, Tennessee.