Katie Zanoni, Ed.D., ALUM

RESEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Katie Zanoni is co-founder of Education for Transformation, a consultancy group of scholar-practitioners advancing transformative approaches to peacebuilding, human rights, and social justice in education. She has 20 years of experience in program design and management in the education and nonprofit sector.  Her research interests include women leaders in peacebuilding, critical peace education, gender transformative human rights education, and conflict transformation through educational policy. Zanoni holds an EdD in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco (2018) and an MA in Peace and Justice Studies from the University of San Diego (2006). As a mother-scholar, Zanoni maintains a critical lens to examine issues of power, gender, race and culture within her communities of practice to build trust and reciprocity.