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AnnaLise Hoopes is a Fulbright scholar from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she is a PhD candidate in comparative international education. Her dissertation research explores how kindergarten and primary schools in the US, Italy, Germany, and Ecuador foster empathy. She is particularly interested in the cultivation of empathy across lines of division (on dimensions of race, class, gender, ability, religion, political ideology, etc.) as well as empathy towards animals and nature (ecological empathy).
AnnaLise holds a bachelor’s in philosophy and studio art from the University of Notre Dame, a master’s in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a multiple-subjects teaching credential. She has been a classroom teacher, environmental educator, nonprofit director, and social entrepreneur. In addition to her academic work, AnnaLise also runs The Changemaker Project (TCP), a nonprofit she founded in 2017 which empowers youth to create social impact projects tackling social, racial, and environmental injustice. Over the past eight years, TCP has provided thousands of youths in 35+ countries with the tools, mentorship, and funding to create positive change in their communities.
RCC Research Project: Cultivating Empathy in Schools: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Empathy Pedagogy in the US, Italy, Germany, and Ecuador
Selected Publications:
- “How Might Apple, Freire, and Hooks Redesign the Modern School as a Site for Social Transformation?” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 19, no. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.5070/D41.19440.