Welcome to my Press Page!  Hopefully you’ll find this information useful if you want to quote me or hire me or just know more about what I’ve done in the past.

My Bio

Dr. Karen Rayne provides advice and support to parents on how to educate their children and teenagers about sex and sexuality.  Karen’s knowledge about adolescent development and education provides her with a solid background for guiding parents through these tricky conversations.  She also moonlights as a sex educator for the children, teenagers, and college students themselves.

Ongoing Work

• Human Sexuality Professor for Austin Community College (since 2008)
• Human Sexuality Professor for UMUC Europe Online (since 2010)
• Sex educator for private middle school and high school classes
• Resident adolescent and sexuality expert for Kiwi Commons
• Co-creator and moderator of The Belly Project
• Academic Advisory Board Member for TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in Gender and TAKING SIDES: Clashing Views in Human Sexuality
• International Partner for Eagles Youth Development Group, a pro-Youth, anti-HIV advocacy nonprofit in Uganda

Past Speaking Engagements and Other Work

2012

• Primary presenter at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School’s 7th grade sexuality education program
• Invited speaker for Breakthrough Austin’s annual conference

2011

• Primary author of Human Sexuality Activities, a chapter from volume 2 of the American Psychological Association’s e-book Promoting Student Engagement
• Presenter for Campus Outreach Services
• Keynote speaker for Oregon Adolescent Sexuality Conference
• Invited speaker for iChoose Austin
• Invited speaker for GENaustin’s We Are Girls! conference
• Invited speaker for Breakthrough Austin’s annual conference

2010

• Invited speaker at Rawson-Saunders School
• Presenter at SXSW Interactive
• Host for iChoose Austin
• Guest on Kink On Tap (listen to episode 45)
• Invited speaker for GENaustin’s We Are Girls! conference

2009

• Invited Sexpert on Irish radio RedFM show Sexually Speaking
• Presenter at the International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women
• Authored piece published on Scarleteen.com
• Interviewed by Reign of the Girl-Child
• Presenter at SXSW Interactive
• Our Whole Lives teacher at Wildflower Unitarian Universalst Church, Austin

2008

• Phoenix House Austin
• Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church, Austin
• Austin Waldorf School’s Second Grade Parents’ Meeting
• Texas Council on Family Relations Annual Conference
• Adolescent sexuality expert interview for Mona Lisa Production.  Documentary released in 2009.
• Blossom Family Center guest speaker on parent sexuality
• Editor of the Personal sections of Blog Nosh Magazine

2007

• Guest speaker on Rev. Chuck Freeman’s radio show Soul Talk
• American Educational Research Association Annual Conference
• Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas

2006

• American Educational Research Association Annual Conference

2004

• University of Texa