Dr. Hope Blecher Croney, a member of the Hadassah Educators Council and the Hadassah Writers’ Circle, has been working in the field of education for 40 years. She is a best-selling author, artist, educator and founder of Hope’s Compass, a non-profit that creates arts and literacy projects for the underserved. You can see more of her expressions at www.DrHopesHub.org. At this site, visitors can explore the nonprofit fund she created, her consultancy, her poetry, books and artwork. She looks forward to bringing Little Free Libraries and Creation Stations to local areas, and to continuing as an ambassador for The Daffodil Project, along with creating workshops for the Liberty Museum and Arts Center, and curating Voices of Survivors: Inspiring Hope, Sanctuary, Compassion and Community. Dr. Hope Blecher holds multiple standard NJDOE issued certifications that she has used by serving as an adjunct professor, a teacher of high school students with special needs, English Language Learners K-adult, and those in the elementary age-level classrooms. She earned a BA in Sociology, an MA in Early Childhood Education and an Ed.D. in Teacher Leadership. She has been a member of Hadassah for over a decade, first in the Southern NJ Region and currently in Lower New York State.
