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Akilah S. Richards
Akilah S. Richards is passionate about mindful partnerships and parenting. Since 2016, she has hosted Fare of the Free Child, a lifestyle and parenting podcast about the connection between liberation, learning, and parenting, particularly among BIPOC communities. Parents, educators, unschoolers and entrepreneurs tune in weekly to connect about unschooling, deschooling, conscious parenting, and self-directedness. Discussions center emotional wellness, learning and children, parenting, self-care, and self-love. The voice and work of this Jamaican-born, digital nomad have been featured on NPR, Forbes, NBC TV, Good Morning America’s blog, and in several literary and in-person spaces throughout the U.S., Jamaica, and South Africa. She is a TEDx Speaker, an accomplished digital content writer, and sought-after facilitator whose highly-anticipated book, "Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work" (PM Press), will be released in the Fall of 2020.
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Akilah S. Richards: Raising Free Black, non-Black Indigenous, and People of Color Children
What does it take to make and then keep a commitment to raise free people amid the pattern of anti-Black racism and the pervasive myth of white supremacy?
During an hour-long interactive session, Akilah, a well-respected voice in the unschooling community and author of the forthcoming Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work, will offer some of her ideas and experiences and invite discussion focused on and for people raising BIPOC young people today. Come learn and share liberation language for partnership-centered ways of living with our children, protecting their freedom, and fashioning our own.
