att Dozier is a man who goes by several different titles: CEO, boss, facilitator, dad, Batpa (a combination of “grandpa” and “Batman”). For two decades, he’s given everything he has to EAST - and more importantly - to the students in it. Matt has created a profound impact during his two decades at EAST, and it’s a certainty that EAST as we know it would not exist without him. His career in education began as most do...in the classroom. Matt taught speech and English until 1998, when he was exposed to the success of the EAST program that was plioting at Greenbrier High School. There, Matt met Tim Stephenson, the founder of EAST, and began facilitating an EAST class of his own before beginning work at the EAST Initiative nonprofit in 2001. Now here we are 20 years later, and much has changed since the dawn of the century. But one thing that hasn’t is Matt himself.
A MILESTONE
FOR MATT CELEBRATING
20 YEARS AT EAST
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