GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Teachers have always been an integral piece of artist Teresa Dunn’s life.
Growing up, her parents were educators, giving her a firsthand experience of the impact they had on their students. Last year, her daughter, then a seventh grader at East Lansing middle school, had two STEM teachers make a seismic impact.
“She had two incredible women teachers in science and math, which are fields that generally girls are not expected to go into, or their confidence starts to drop at those ages. And I saw how brilliant teachers they were and how much they inspire all the children and especially my daughter, to want to strive to be the best she could be in science and math and she really excelled and blossomed in her classes,” Dunn said.
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The two teachers fit right in to a project Dunn was working on at the time about impactful women…