Julie D Penshorn

A lifelong teacher of equestrian skills, Julie Penshorn whose Master's Degree is in Business Communications, is also a peace educator, musician, singer and songwriter. She was founder and director of Options for Animals Foundation, and was co-founder and co-director of Growing Communities for Peace with current business partner, Rebecca Janke. Her current focus is her horse farm and riding students at Sunborn Stables, and her work with Children's Peace Education Company: Smart Tools for Life....See more

A lifelong teacher of equestrian skills, Julie Penshorn whose Master's Degree is in Business Communications, is also a peace educator, musician, singer and songwriter. She was founder and director of Options for Animals Foundation, and was co-founder and co-director of Growing Communities for Peace with current business partner, Rebecca Janke. Her current focus is her horse farm and riding students at Sunborn Stables, and her work with Children's Peace Education Company: Smart Tools for Life. In this role she is writing children's books and creating complementary music to assist children in learning about peacemaking, peacebuilding, and peacekeeping. Children's stories, inspired by advanced peace education topics, usually reserved for adults, allows children to get an early start at internalizing the skills needed to make the world a better place, since these concepts and ways of thinking can become part of who they are. See less