Bio
Jennifer Rothschild is the Executive Director of the Educating Character Initiative at the Program for Leadership and Character. The ECI supports a community of character educators across higher education through opportunities for engagement, collective learning, and grants to college and university teams. A philosopher by training, Jennifer came to the field of character education via her academic research interests in ethical theory, the history of ethics, and Aristotelian virtue ethics. Her work focuses primarily on questions about habit, the sociality and unity of virtue, and the constitutions of vicious people. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in philosophy and biology from Grinnell College. Prior to joining the ECI, Jennifer spent a decade as faculty in the Philosophy Department at the University of Florida.