Chris G. from Santa Barbara, CA

I started teaching a few years ago when I realized I got a lot more satisfaction from informal, one-on-one relationships than from climbing the professional ladder — and with degrees from Yale, Yale Law, and UC Berkeley, I was climbing pretty well. I had been a legal reporter, journalist, and book writer — still am, sometimes — but after writing a book on Habitat for Humanity, I was hooked on doing meaningful work…and that meant project-based work like teaching and tutoring. I’ve taught sc