Sarah Ropp, Ph.D., is Dialogue Director for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Paideia Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Sarah is a multi-lingual and interdisciplinary teacher/scholar with over 20 years of experience in intercultural communication. As a dialogue practitioner and researcher, she is interested in the role of dialogue in anti-oppression approaches to teaching, learning, and community-based work, taking special inspiration from the critical pedagogy of bell hooks and Paulo Freire. In her role as Dialogue Director, Sarah teaches SNF Paideia-designated courses in the Communications and Comparative Literature programs at Penn; creates resources for planning and participating in dialogue; facilitates dialogue workshops and events; conducts ongoing research on dialogue in theory and practice; and provides advising to Penn students, faculty, and staff working on their own dialogue-related projects, courses, and events.