Megan Helberg proudly lives in rural Nebraska where she teaches English to 8th, 11th, and 12th grade students at Burwell Public School. Helberg grew up on a ranch in the Sandhills; one out of ten students in her graduating class. Holocaust and genocide education is a passion for Helberg and she feels strongly about exposing her students to various cultures and ways of life. In 2013 she received a Fund For Teachers and used the opportunity to visit Holocaust related sites throughout Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. Helberg also used the grant money to purchase class sets of Holocaust literature resources for her school. She was named a Museum Teacher Fellow for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in 2016 and has spent extensive time at the USHMM learning from world renowned historians, authors, and survivors. Helberg saw a lack of exposure in her small town, so she founded a Travel Club for the school and community members to travel together and bridge the gap between school and community. Helberg has spent time in Rwanda, Africa studying the 1994 genocide, and most recently, spent time in the Amazon Rain Forest living with an indigenous tribe and she makes sure to bring her stories and experiences from her travels back to her classroom in Burwell, Nebraska, a population 1,200. The main mantra in. her classroom is, “Look for the Good: in others, in yourself, and in your community. If you do not see any good, then go CREATE it.”