highschooldiploma

Ingrid Douglas never finished high school as a teenager. When she started looking for a better job at age sixty, she found not having a degree was a huge barrier. So, Ingrid came to the library to get her diploma. In this episode, we talk to students and instructors at BPL about how the library can be a refuge for those who have experienced trauma or adversity on their path to education.

Read our transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/education-for-all 

Meet Rowan King. Rowan organizes the annual Drag for Diplomas fundraiser for the Thrive with Pride Program at the Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation. Thrive with Pride is Georgia's only nonprofit alternative diploma program for homeless lgbtq youth, sex trafficking survivors, and high school dropouts.

This is the story of how an entire drag community flipped the script to save a fundraiser.

This podcast is a collection of voices from everyday people in the community from urban cities to rural dirt roads reflecting on how #Covid19 impacted their lives and in some cases changed their outlook.
This podcast is unedited and the feelings are real.

These are their stories. Their stories are our story. This is how we are all surviving this Leadership Apocalypse 2020. The year a divided community united and transformed America.