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What happens when you have a huge balance of student debt to pay back, but no degree to show for it? This week’s guest, Alisha, tells Nikki about her experience with student loans as someone...
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Ashley Strahm was 16 when she was accepted to college — so young that her immigrant parents had to use Parent PLUS Loans to pay for what wasn’t covered by her scholarships. Now a writer...
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As a public servant, Kate Spaulding qualified for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. (PSLF is for those employed by a U.S. federal, state, local, or tribal government or not-for-profit organization.) After 120 payments toward...
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Student loan advisor by day and musician by night, Bridget Haile uses her own experience navigating student debt repayment to work at Summer, which partners with large employers, financial institutions, and unions to help their...
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As an immigrant and first-generation in her family to attend college, Shanna Bennett is a self-described late bloomer when it comes to personal finance and navigating student debt. She spoke to Nikki about her educational...
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As an NYU Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Andrew Ross sees firsthand the way student debt negatively impacts the lives of his students. His students and experience as an activist in the Occupy Wall...
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As a comedian, Drew Beekler can find comedy in most situations. His student loans are even part of his comedy set. But there’s nothing funny about the burden of student debt from two unaccredited art...
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This week’s guest, Alicia Davis, has spent over a decade living with the consequences of for-profit education. In 2008, after spending two years at a for-profit university that mishandled her financial aid, she found that...
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Hil Kaman came to his career as a lawyer through a circuitous route, working as a chef, scholar, and poet for many years before law school. After passing the bar, he took a job he...
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In this week’s mini-episode, returning guest Umme Hoque, Organizing Director of The Debt Collective, talks about the recent student debt cancellation week of action. Umme discusses how the movement to cancel student debt is building...