Category: Podcast

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Episode 14: Power in Collective Action

• March 25, 2021

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Umme Hoque, Organizing Director of The Debt Collective, talks to Nikki about how, after taking on student debt, she became disillusioned with the American Dream. She now works for complete student debt cancelation as well...

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Episode 13: #CancelStudentDebt

• March 11, 2021

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This week’s guest, Melissa Byrne, is back after her mini-episode to tell us more about her advocacy for debt cancellation and the latest news from Washington on the student debt crisis. With federal student loan...

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Episode 12: The Prosp(A)rity Project

• February 25, 2021

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This week’s guest, Briana B. Franklin was the first member of her family to attend an Ivy League education. But after her first semester, she found herself struggling to find a career path and a...

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Episode 11: Shame[Less] Student Debt

• February 11, 2021

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After attending art school to pursue her dreams of working in theater, Emma Klauber found herself for years making decisions to repair the financial damage of her student loans. Finally she found herself in her...

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Mini-Episode with Melissa Byrne 

• February 9, 2021

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In this week’s mini-episode, our guest is Melissa Bryne, a senior political and community organizer who is focused on canceling student debt and making education free for all. Melissa tells Nikki why the suggestion to...

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Episode 10: Canceling Student Loan Debt

• February 4, 2021

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This week’s guest, Winter, an organizer for the Debt Collective talks about the emotional breakdown that led him eventually to a life devoted to student debt activism. After a bad experience with a negligent financial...

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Episode 9: The Student Debt Strike

• January 21, 2021

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This week’s guest, Eli Campbell, shares why he is an advocate for the Student Debt Strike movement and an active member of The Debt Collective, a group that organizes debtors for political action and is...

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Episode 8: Pawns in the Loan Market

• January 7, 2021

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Like many Americans who took out student loans for school, Ro Fainstein found that when she left college, her full-time job in public relations didn’t make her enough to pay more than the minimum payments...

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Episode 7: Going Green to Get Out of the Red

• December 24, 2020

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After life threw them a few curveballs, this week’s guest, who chooses to remain anonymous, paid for graduate school as well as their existing student loans from undergraduate, in cash by delivering weed on their...

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Episode 6: Passion and A Paycheck

• December 10, 2020

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After graduating undergrad with no debt, Tameka Vasquez was surprised to learn the complexities of taking out student loans while getting her Master of Science at Columbia University in New York. Vasquez explains how, while...

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