177. Running for Congress with Pia Dandiya

About this episode

Pia Dandiya discusses her journey as an educator and her motivations for running for Congress to improve the education system.

Pia Dandiya is a first-generation American educator running for Congress in the district where she was born and raised to fight for kids and expand opportunity for every Floridian. She began her career as a teacher in low-income schools and went on to become one of the youngest high school principals in the country, founding a school where every graduate earned college admission despite most students living below the poverty line. She later served as a White House Fellow working on education and domestic policy and worked at the intersection of technology and education at Apple. Now that she’s running for congress, Pia and I talk about why she ran in the first place and how her experience in education motivates her to work on a national level. We also get into how she wants to fix our education system. For all links and resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.educatorforever.com/episode177 .

People in this episode

Host: Lily Jones

Guest: Pia Dandiya

Topics covered

• education policy
• politics
• opportunity expansion
• Congress
• educational reform

Keywords

• Congress
• education
• Pia Dandiya
• Florida
• policy
• opportunity
• reform

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple

Places: Florida

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