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Akilah Richards
Podcaster, Speaker, and Consultant at the Intersection of Privilege, Parenting, and Power.
Akilah Richards is the founder and executive producer of the Raising Free People Network, a platform dedicated to exploring themes of unschooling, equity, and conscious parenting. She is a Jamaican-born podcaster and writer, who focuses on leadership development and cultural competence within the context of parenting and education.
Richards established the Raising Free People Network as a media and collaboration hub aimed at community organizing and addressing issues related to privilege and power dynamics in adult-child relationships. Her work emphasizes self-inquiry, deschooling, and decolonization, advocating for a shift away from coercive practices in parenting and education towards more liberating approaches that respect children's autonomy.123
In addition to her role at the network, Richards has delivered a TEDx talk on unschooling, where she discusses the importance of recognizing and challenging coercive norms that have been normalized in society.1
