Classmate Update: Claire Rumore

After graduating from John Carroll, Claire Rumore attended Auburn University which took her to Kathmandu, Nepal in early 1999, where she studied medical anthropology. She then studied sexuality, gender & identity in Amsterdam on a Morris K. Udall scholarship in late 1999. For three months in 2000, Claire studied Spanish on a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship in Costa Rica. Claire ultimately graduated from Auburn in 2001 with dual degrees in sociology and Spanish, and a minor in women’s studies.

 

After graduation, Claire moved back to Birmingham and started an environmentally-friendly house cleaning company, which she ran for four years. She also became a Feng Shui practitioner and had a private practice during that same era. In 2005 Claire moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. While living in California she became trained in life coaching, somatic psychotherapy, non-violent communication, and relationship counseling, which she used to develop a coaching/counseling practice focused on relationships and sexuality with a Tantric Buddhist focus.

 

She was married to an Italian man for nine years and has dual citizenship.

Claire speaks three languages – English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese – and has traveled to more than 40 countries. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, blues dancing, yoga, personal development and spiritual studies.