Rodney Pierce
Rodney D. Pierce is an educator, historian and writer in North Carolina. He was named the Most Outstanding Beginning Teacher of the Year in 2018 and recognized in 2019 as the North Carolina Council for the Social Studies Teacher of the Year. Pierce was the inaugural Teacher Fellow for the NC Equity Fellowship through the Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED). He has appeared on MSNBC's The Reidout and the Tamron Hall Show on ABC to speak about the teaching of American history in public schools. His research on re-segregation in his native Halifax County was featured in The Washington Post. He has penned articles on the history of African Americans in the U.S. with Gibbs Smith Education.