Edie Rice-Sauer is the Executive Director of Transitions, a local not for profit that works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane.  Transitions recently developed 24 affordable, high efficiency housing cottages as an infill project.  Previous to becoming Executive Director, Edie was Program Director of one of Transitions’ programs, the Women’s Hearth.

Edie holds a Master of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville Tennessee and is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).  Previous to her work with Transitions, she worked for Volunteers of America and Spokane County overseeing mental health contracts.  Before moving to Spokane, she was the Associate Executive of the YWCA of Nashville and Middle Tennessee.