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Matt Dozier is the President and CEO of the EAST (Environmental and Spatial Technology) Initiative; an
innovative educational reform effort that combines community service projects with high-end
technology in a student-centered environment. The EAST model has been recognized nationally as an
innovative, relevant, and successful approach to education by the Federal Department of Education and
other groups. Students are exposed to strategies that help them move from the traditional self-centered
approaches of learning into a more realistic (and more relevant) interdependent environment that
stresses understanding, collaboration, and team approaches to problem resolution. Dozier first became
affiliated with EAST in 1998 while teaching at North Pulaski High School in Jacksonville, Arkansas
becoming the first facilitator of that program. He soon became a member of the first EAST Professional
Development training team, helping to develop curriculum and train hundreds of teachers as the EAST
program spread to over 200 schools in eight states. In 2001, Dozier joined the EAST staff full-time,
serving variously as the Initiative's Communication Director, Assistant Program Director, and National
Program Director. Matt was named EAST CEO in 2007. Dozier is currently serving on the Arkansas
Leaders Advisory Council for the Arkansas Discovery Network, a consortium of seven museums that
share high quality educational exhibits and programs around the state, especially in rural areas. He is the
editor of Autism is Not a Life Sentence: How One Family Took on Autism and WON! by Lynley Summers
which was published by the Autism Asperger Publishing Company in 2006. He earned his bachelor's
degree from the University of Central Arkansas. Revised 2011