| Peter Durning has completed his first year at Boston College Law School. He grew up in Pelham, NY and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1993 with a History major and a concentration in Peace Studies. During his time at Notre Dame, he spent a semester in London, participated in many programs organized by the Center for Social Concerns, and played saxophone in the marching band.
After college Peter joined Teach For America. TFA sent him to Trenton, New Jersey where he taught Social Studies to bilingual teach middle school students who were native Spanish speakers. In 1996, he moved to Philadelphia, where his wife Jennifer was starting a program to become a pediatric nurse-practitioner at the University of Pennsylvania. He found a position teaching History at the Abington Friends School. At AFS, he taught a general world history course to tenth graders and designed two senior electives in Peace Studies and Latin American Politics. He served on the Diversity and Multiculturalism Committee, and was a faculty advisor to the Community Service program and Amnesty International. He organized a Service-Learning trip to bring AFS students to Mexico City to work on rebuilding houses destroyed in the massive 1985 earthquake. In June of 1999, Peter went on a Witness For Peace delegation to Guatemala to learn about the popular referendum that failed to implement the constitutional reforms that were recommended by the from the 1996 Peace Accords. Peter has a wonderful three year-old daughter named Anna Blair. |
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