Episode 8: Kathie Klarreich
What it takes for another chance
"...the sense of community for those who are still standing upright and not wounded, and not quite aware of everything that is about to unfold."
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More About Today's Guest:
Kathie Klarreich is the author of Madame Dread: A Tale of Love and a contributor to two anthologies: So Spoke the Earth and Women, Writing, and Prison. In 2010 she received a Knight International Journalism Fellowship to train journalists in investigative reporting in Haiti, where she spent half of the last 24 years reporting for print, radio and television, including Time, The New York Times, ABC, and NPR. Kathie started facilitating writing workshops in the correctional system in 2009 and began the writing exchanges with academic institutions in 2013. She graduated from the University of Michigan and received her MFA from Leslie University.
Executive Director of Exchange for Change joins us to discuss providing education to the incarcerated, education as a human right, and the ways in which her life experience impacted her desire to center humanism in education. Kathie was a journalist in Haiti for 30 years and shares with us lessons from that experience that informs her current work.
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How could the cultural changes in today's day reflect to what we put in our CV compared to previous years?
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How would the political environment impact the ways in which aid to immigrant and minoritized students are perceived?'
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What are some visions in education that knowledge unbound are trying to promote?
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