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Podcast: Teachers in America
Episode: Displaced Katrina Student Comes Home to Teach with Chris Dier
Description: Meet Chris Dier, a teacher of World History and AP Human Geography at Chalmette High School in St. Bernard’s Parish, Louisiana. A Louisiana native, Chris was uprooted by Hurricane Katrina in his senior year of high school, but eventually returned to earn two Master’s degrees from the University of New Orleans. Now working in the same high school where his mother taught before him, Chris’s focus is to provide an equitable and multicultural education for all. He has been featured in The New York Times, and more recently in The Washington Post for "An Open Letter to High...