Summary
This session will cover redlining in Omaha as well as the opportunity for highway diets to reconnect a city. It will cover the economics of redlining in Omaha and how the hotel we are in divided the city. The session will end with an uplifting message of entrepreneurship and how teens across Omaha have worked with history to bring life back to forgotten corridors across the city.
Session Focus
Secondary/High School | Political Geography, Redlining, Transportation
Conference Room
Flannigan
Meet the Presenter
Matthew Pierson is the Associate Director of the Nebraska Council on Economic Education. He is a 13-year veteran of the classroom, spending that time teaching social studies and economics at Omaha Bryan High School. He holds Master’s degrees in both History Education and Economic Education. He was a co-author of NAEE Silver
Curriculum Award Winning, Entrepreneurship in our Community, The Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues Curriculum, and Beyond the Bet: Economics of Gambling. Matthew has a passion for bringing new and odd resources and topics into economics classrooms and loves inserting his own passions into economics.
