Ronne Hartfield (born Ronola Rone in 1936) is an author, essayist, international museum consultant, and former senior executive at The Art Institute of Chicago and Executive Director of Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education.
She has been a co-chair of the Harvard University Arts Education Council and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions, and at Claremont Graduate University School of Religion.
In 2004, Ms.
Hartfield published Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family to critical acclaim.
Ronne Hartfield has served on the board of directors at the American Writers Museum, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Taliesin, Scottsdale, AZ, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago.
She is an internationally recognized expert in arts education and multicultural education.
Ronne is married to Robert Hartfield, a mathematician at the University of Chicago, with whom she has four daughters.