Growing up in Bar Harbor, Maine, Lanie Christianson says she always thought teaching might be in her future. “I always loved school and I’m a kid-person. I love working with kids,” says Christianson, a junior elementary education major at the University of Maine.  But when she started at UMaine in 2017, Christianson chose English and read more Lanie Christianson and Matthew Eastman: Finding a passion for teaching when Maine needs them most