Inauguration poet Amanda Gorman's ex-teacher says 'she's incredibly driven to transform the world''

Amanda Gorman, the Youth Poet Laureate of the United States stole the show at the inauguration of President Joe Biden with a self-penned work about unity and togetherness.

Luthern Williams, taught 22-year-old Ms Gorman at the New Roads School in Santa Monica, California, a school set up in the wake of the Rodney King murder in Los Angeles.

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