Category: Podcast

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Episode 32: Student Debt, A Queer Issue

• December 16, 2021

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This week Nason FKA Carly talks to Nikki about her experience navigating a for-profit education to the artist she is today. Nason shares the radically transparent story of the Parent Plus loans that are overwhelming...

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Episode 31: Chasing the Storm

• December 2, 2021

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Meteorologist April Vogt about her decade-long journey to graduate from college with as little accumulated student debt as possible while also pursuing her career ambitions. April talks about her personal interest in meteorology and the...

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Episode 30: The Student Debt Cancellation Memo

• November 18, 2021

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Braxton Brewington, Press Secretary of the Debt Collective explains what we know about President Biden’s heavily redacted and unreleased student debt memo obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. He breaks down the Debt Collective’s...

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Episode 29: Financial Transparency

• November 4, 2021

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Writer and product marketing manager Miranda speaks to Nikki about her evolving relationship with student debt and how it shaped her career choices. Miranda believes in transparency around money and conversations that help us increase...

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Episode 28: Successful Loan Cancellation

• October 21, 2021

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Kim Baker shares her experience navigating the loan forgiveness system and recently achieved student debt cancellation. Kim tells Nikki about listening to the experiences of others with student debt inspired her to take action on...

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Episode 27: Student Loan Co-Signer

• October 7, 2021

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Musician and activist Reggie Harris uses his art to build community, share the burden of our challenges, and enact social change. He discusses the intersectionality of activism and the history of our country to exercise...

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Episode 26: From Scared to Debt to Action – Panel

• September 23, 2021

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From Scared to Debt to Action, Nikki moderates a panel for Sallie Mae Not, the first episode of the Scared to Debt documentary series. Nikki asks panelists Alan Collinge, founder of Student Loan Justice, Reggie...

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Mini-Episode All Debt, No Degree Two Years Later

• September 9, 2021

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Nikki checks back in with Alisha from the “All Debt, No Degree” episode. Alisha has transformed her relationship with her loan repayment and tackled the student debt monster that previously controlled her life. Over the...

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Episode 25: License to Steal

• August 26, 2021

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Student Loan Justice founder Alan Collinge speaks to Nikki about the lack of consumer protections for student loan borrowers and the introduction of two bankruptcy bills that he believes are the first necessary step toward...

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Episode 24: Scared to Debt

• August 12, 2021

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Who is really to blame for the American student loan crisis and how is it perpetuated? Filmmaker Michael Camoin’s new documentary series Scared to Debt explores and reveals the depths of the American student loan...

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