Radical Imagination Podcast on Freedom University

Need an upbeat movement in this dystopian time of the virus?  Listen to this Real Imagination podcast, Freedom University: Higher Ed for True Liberation.  The podcast is hosted by Angela Glover Blackwell with guests Professor Laura Emiko Soltis and Former Student Rafael Aragon.  Go Freedom U!!

Here is an abstract to the podcast: 

The federal government allows DACA recipients to attend college but leaves them with no practical way to pay tuition because they are barred from receiving federal loans and grants. That restrictive policy wasn’t enough for Georgia. In 2010, the state banned undocumented students from applying to its top public universities and required them to pay out-of-state at the other public colleges. In response, a group of Georgia professors created an underground school, Freedom University. It offers free college-level courses to the banned students, and guidance and support to access higher education. Many of the students have gone on to earn degrees at colleges and universities across the country. Radical Imagination host Angela Glover Blackwell talks with Freedom University Executive Director, Laura Emiko Soltis. We also hear from a former student Rafael Aragon, who has returned to his community to help undocumented youth achieve their education goals.

Photo courtesy of the Freedom University Facebook page

Photo courtesy of the Freedom University Facebook page

KJ