Freedom Writers Podcast

By Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers

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Episodes: 114

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Podcast by Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers

Episode Date
Discovering Hope with Freedom Writer Tony Becerra
Nov 15, 2023
Defining Resilience with Narada Comans
Oct 19, 2023
#106: "Reimagining Education" with Dr. Robert Alsop
Aug 09, 2023
#105: "Turning Stigmas into Strength" w/ Dr. Freda and Jayden Braddock
Jul 26, 2023
#104: Disability Pride Month w/ Jasmine Matthews & Nare Garibyan
Jul 12, 2023
#103: Celebrating Pride Month
Jun 28, 2023
#102: Celebrating Father's Day w/ Freedom Writers Carlos Barragan & Melvin Logan
Jun 14, 2023
#101: Lessons from the Stage & Screen w/ Tony-Award Winner John Benjamin Hickey
May 31, 2023
#100: "And Tango Makes Three" Beyond the Ban w/ Dr. Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
May 17, 2023
#99: Unbreakable Threads w/ Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel & Jody Savin
May 03, 2023
#98: Reflecting on the Cambodian Genocide w/ Loung Ung
Apr 19, 2023
#97: Embracing Survival after the Rwandan Genocide w/ Dydine Umunyana-Anderson
Apr 05, 2023
#96: Young Playwrights Ukraine w/ Laura Cahill, Uliana Klimchuk, & Alex Feldman
Mar 22, 2023
#95: Women's History Month
Mar 08, 2023
#94: Celebrating Black History Month
Feb 22, 2023
#93: Powering Education in Ukraine w/ Katya Yarotskaya
Dec 14, 2022
#92: Live to Tell w/ Edie Mermelstein
Nov 30, 2022
#91: My Flag Has No Country w/ Nyaz Burhan & Mic Wegmann
Nov 16, 2022
#90: They Are My Pronouns w/ Samuel DePace
Nov 02, 2022
#89: Ukraine Needs You w/ Lenny Shteynberg
Oct 19, 2022
#88: Finding Your Vision & Your Voice w/ Dr. Tiffany Lopez
Sep 28, 2022
#87 How to Deal with Bullying feat. Krish Sharma & Sam Norwood
Sep 13, 2022
#86 Speaking My Mother Tongue w/ Lucas Hammeken & Torbjørn Ydegaard
Aug 24, 2022
#85: Maori Misunderstood with Meredith & Casey Akuhata-Brown
Aug 02, 2022
Special Episode: Remembering Alexi Rodriguez
Jul 19, 2022
#83: "My Two Dads" w/ Dear Freedom Writer Student Author Kyan
Jun 22, 2022
#82: Dear Freedom Writer Student Author Reflections
May 24, 2022
#81: Teacher Appreciation Week
May 10, 2022
#80: Two Worlds w/ Jill & Amnon Damti
Apr 26, 2022
#79: Dear Freedom Writer Symposium Panels
Apr 12, 2022
#78: Dear Freedom Writer Student Authors - Becoming Authors
Mar 29, 2022
#77: Writing Dear Freedom Writer w/ Original Freedom Writers
Mar 22, 2022
#76: Georgie Smith - A Sense of Home
Dec 21, 2021
#75: Tresor Rusesabagina
Nov 09, 2021
#74: Kate Nash - An Outsider's Perspective
Oct 26, 2021
#73: Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day (w/ Freedom Writer Teacher Candace Houle)
Oct 13, 2021
#72: Temple Grandin - The Autism Spectrum
Sep 28, 2021
#71: Letters to Strangers with Diana Chao
Sep 14, 2021
#70: Remembering Matthew Shepard w/ LGBTQ Activist Judy Shepard
Aug 31, 2021
#69: Chris Levinson: Letters From My Father
Jun 15, 2021
#68: Scarlett Lewis: Choosing Love After the Sandy Hook Shooting
Jun 02, 2021
#67: Anna Quindlen
Apr 28, 2021
#66: #StopAAPIHate
Apr 13, 2021
#65: Esther Wojcicki: Changing Online Learning and Tract.app
Mar 30, 2021
#64: Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragán
Mar 16, 2021
#FreeRusesabagina
Feb 25, 2021
COVID-19 Special Episode 6: Healing From Hurting 2
Dec 28, 2020
COVID-19 Special Episode 5: Healing From Hurting
Dec 21, 2020
COVID-19 Special Episode 4: In the Halls of Congress (w/ Congressman Steny Hoyer)
Dec 14, 2020
COVID-19 Special Episode 3: On the Bright Side (w/ Steve Hartman)
Dec 07, 2020
COVID-19 Special Episode 2: In the Field (w/ CNN's Gary Tuchman)
Nov 24, 2020
COVID-19 Special Episode 1: On the Front Lines (w/ Freedom Writers Calvin Vanderhoff & Norma Bravo)
Nov 17, 2020
Danny DeVito: Sharing Success and Empowering Everyone
Nov 10, 2020
The Legacy of the Armenian Genocide w/ Nare Garibyan
Oct 26, 2020
Tess Holliday: #EffYourBeautyStandards
Oct 12, 2020
Patrick Dempsey: Dealing With Dyslexia
Sep 28, 2020
Democracy (In One Podcast or Less) w/ David Litt
Sep 14, 2020
#BlackLivesMatter w/ Original Freedom Writers Tye and Shanate
Aug 31, 2020
The State of Education w/ California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond
Aug 17, 2020
Esther Wojcicki: TRICKs for Raising Successful People
Mar 23, 2020
Jane Elliott: How Discrimination Feels
Mar 09, 2020
From Playing Miep Gies to Disney's Ursula w/ Pat Carroll
Feb 24, 2020
Steal a Pencil for Me: The Power of the Pencil w/ Margrit Polak
Feb 10, 2020
Jinahie: How to Express Your True Self Through Spoken Word
Dec 02, 2019
Gary Soto: Using Words to Bring Others Out of the Shadows
Nov 18, 2019
Rosalind Wiseman: Mean Girls, Masterminds, and the Realities of Adolescence
Nov 04, 2019
Learning to Smile Again After Trauma, with Mohamed Sidibay
Oct 21, 2019
Connie Chung: Journalism and the Art of Seeking Truth
Oct 07, 2019
Freedom Writers Round-Table: Why People Connect to Gritty Stories
Sep 23, 2019
Freedom Writer 20/20 Part V: Passing the Torch to the Next Generation
Sep 07, 2019
Freedom Writer 20/20 Part IV: The Power of Storytelling to Heal Hearts
Sep 06, 2019
Freedom Writer 20/20 Part III: Connecting the Dots from the Past and the Present
Sep 05, 2019
Freedom Writer 20/20 Part II: Recreating the Magic of Room 203
Sep 04, 2019
Freedom Writer 20/20 Part I: Coming Back to Write Twenty New Stories
Sep 03, 2019
Introducing Freedom Writer 20/20
Aug 26, 2019
#39 Dr. Carl Cohn: The Power of Listening in Effective Leadership
Aug 12, 2019
#38 Liz Murray: Homeless to Harvard
Jul 29, 2019
#37 Isha Sesay: How To Help Girls Understand Their Power
Jul 15, 2019
#36 Wes Moore: Why Decisions Determine Destiny
Jul 01, 2019
#35 Anne Frank: A Glimpse into the Secret Annex
Jun 17, 2019
#34 Antwone Fisher: How to Instill Hope in All Children with Rick Miller
Jun 03, 2019
#33 Daniel Ellsberg: What the Pentagon Papers Teach Us About Accountability
May 20, 2019
#32 Period. End of Sentence: Empowered Women Empower Women
May 06, 2019
#31 How to Understand Young People and Their Stories
Apr 22, 2019
#30 After Columbine: How to Create a Culture of Connection in Schools with Darrell Scott
Apr 08, 2019
#29 Rebuilding Rwanda: How to Heal After a Genocide
Mar 25, 2019
#28 Jack Horner: How to Embrace Dyslexia
Mar 11, 2019
#27 Dolores Huerta: ¡Sí, Se Puede! - How to Start A Movement
Feb 25, 2019
#26 Parkland Students: Overcoming Tragedy With Empathy
Feb 11, 2019
#25 Don Hahn: How Humans Communicate Meaning
Dec 24, 2018
#24 Homeboy Industries: How to Live With Extravagant Tenderness with Father Greg Boyle
Dec 10, 2018
#23 Schindler’s List 25th Anniversary: How Holocaust Education is Changing the World
Dec 03, 2018
#22 Dr. Pedro Noguera: Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Nov 12, 2018
#21 "From Hate to Hope" - How a Neo-Nazi Became an Advocate for Equality with Tim Zaal
Nov 01, 2018
#20 Sexual Abuse Survivors: "You Are Not Alone"
Oct 15, 2018
#19 Cesar Millan: The Four Energies of Happiness
Oct 01, 2018
#18 How to Create a Sphere of Safety: Suicide Prevention with Bob Ezrin
Sep 17, 2018
#17 Genocide Survivors: Why These Stories Must Be Told
Sep 03, 2018
#16 The Freedom Writers Diary: How the "Little Book That Could" Became a Bestseller
Aug 20, 2018
#15 Sudanese Genocide: Trying to Make Sense of Senseless Violence
Aug 06, 2018
#14 How Freedom Writers Changed My Path with Actress-Turned-Activist, April Hernandez-Castillo
Jul 23, 2018
#13 Surviving a Hate Crime, with LGBT Activist Matthew Boger
Jul 09, 2018
#12 Growing Up Under Apartheid
Jun 25, 2018
#11 Anne Frank's Step-Sister: Becoming a Link in the Chain of History with Eva Schloss
Jun 11, 2018
#10 Voices & Votes: How Democracy Works (and How It Doesn't) with David Goodman
Jun 04, 2018
#9 How to Find Your Creative Spark with Kathy Eldon
May 28, 2018
#8 Tony Danza: "I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had"
May 21, 2018
#7 Richard LaGravenese: On Making "Freedom Writers"
May 14, 2018
#6 Little Rock Nine: Integrating the First High School in America with Dr. Terrence Roberts
May 07, 2018
#5 Zlata Filipovic: The Bosnian Genocide and How Labels Can Lead to Destruction
Apr 30, 2018
#4 Andrew Carroll: Discovering the Humanity in History
Apr 23, 2018
#3 Freedom Rides: How to Get Into "Good Trouble" (w/ Jim Zwerg and Congressman John Lewis)
Apr 16, 2018
#2 Patrick Kennedy: Reframing Mental Health and Addiction
Apr 04, 2018
#1 The Holocaust: How to Learn from the Past to Improve the Future with Renee and Klaire Firestone
Apr 04, 2018