Elizabeth A. Hoppe was born in 1963 in Seattle, Wa and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1987 with a B.A. in philosophy. She received graduate degrees in philosophy from Loyola University Chicago (M.A. 1990) and DePaul University (Ph.D. 2000). She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Lewis University, located in the SW suburbs of Chicago. Her research interests concern applied philosophy, in particular ethics in business and aviation. She has also published on racism in the tourist industry in a text she co-edited with Tracey Nicholls: Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy (2010).