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interview Hannah Kraus na rok jako učitel v české škole text: Jakub Škvrna, Emily Mašková 2.A Where are you from? From which state?  grew up in Vermont. It’s a really small state, the second least populated in the U.S. It’s in the mountains, very rural, no cities. After high school, I moved to New Jersey and went to Princeton University. I got my Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy after four years. After I graduated, I moved across the country to California, and got a job for a school district. I was working on the ad- ministrative and policy side of the schools, doing research about teachers and teacher pay. Questions like: How should we pay teachers? How do we support our teachers to improve their teaching? How should we evaluate teachers? I was there for two years and then I worked for a small non-profit law firm this summer. We represented people in prison who are serving life sentences. I travelled to visit our clients in prisons all over California. Our organization helped them prepare for their parole hearing, which is one of the main opportunities to get out of prison if you are serving a life sentence. So… I don’t know where I’m from. Origi- nally from Vermont, but just moved from California. I Why did you choose to study public policy and political science? My parents are actually both professors and they teach political science, so this might be part of why I am interested in these subjects. But they didn’t force me to do it, of course. I have alway s cared about human rights and about why some people in society do not have as many advantages as others. I was driven to study public policy to learn about how we can structure our system of laws to take care of people more equitably. Why did you decide to come here, to the Czech Republic? Many reasons. I got a Fulbright grant that brings Ameri- cans to Czech high schools to teach. I was interested in this because I was working in education policy (as I said), and doing Ö 22 ZÁŘÍ-ŘÍJEN 2019 23