"Radical Imagination" Podcast Features Freedom University Staff

The podcast "RADICAL IMAGINATION" shines a spotlight on the work of Freedom University in an exciting new podcast series that focuses on radical solutions to our society’s most pressing problems.

"Freedom University: Higher Ed for True Liberation"
Host Angela Glover Blackwell
Guests: Dr. Laura Emiko Soltis, Executive Director and Rafael Aragón, alumnus

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, Dr. Laura Emiko Soltis. We also hear from Freedom University alumnus Rafael Aragon, who has returned to his community to help undocumented youth achieve their education goals.

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