Using an inter-disciplinary and experiential approach to learning, the Remerge Institute takes the best academic thinking and proven community building practices to help students explore, understand and create real solutions to poverty and social-exclusion in real communities.

Whether it's an in-person or online course, our instructors work alongside students to help them learn and create real solutions to real problems. As such, the online courses are run not through recorded videos, but through live instruction via Zoom.

The Remerge Institute is a part of Remerge, a values-driven community-building organization founded in 1999. Located in the historic Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta, GA, we bring together stakeholders and create collaborative solutions that accelerate belonging & flourishing in both local and upstream systems. We are particularly attentive to the inclusion of the vulnerable and the place where solutions are implemented.

Our Experiential Learning Process

  • Learn

    Students engage with the why, the what and the how. They seek to understand the topics, systems, processes, practices, and tools, and how it all fits together.

  • Experiment

    In order to fully internalize new understandings, students must put them to use in real-world contexts and constructively adapt to feedback.

  • Activate

    The deeper you understand the why, what, and how; and the more that understanding is tested in real-world contexts, the likelier that learning may be applied to various scenarios.

Remerge Institute Leadership

Andy Odle

Executive Director

Under Andy’s leadership, REMERGE has become an innovative leader in building communities of dignity, imagination and inclusion. Andy earned his M.Div from Anderson University School of Theology and his PhD in theological ethics from King’s College, University of Aberdeen (Scotland). Andy is the editor and a contributor to the book Joining Lives: A Primer in the Ministry of Reconciliation (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2017).

Nathan Penner

Director of The Remerge Institute

Nathan is bringing his decade of experience working with nonprofits across the US, Africa and Asia along with his PhD in Inter-cultural Studies to launch the Remerge Institute for Communities of Peace. He is passionate about building community and bringing people together to facilitate deeper learning and understanding.