Listen to an interview with Saint Louis Sudbury School staff members Phoebe Love and Jennifer Lin on Kerry McDonald's LiberatED Podcast! We talk about how we got interested in self-directed education, the Sudbury model, challenges, our outlook for the future, and more. Kerry's podcast features engaging conversations with the innovators creating education options for families and learners outside the conventional classroom. Saint Louis Sudbury School was honored to be featured on the series!

Kerry McDonald is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also the Velinda Jonson Family Education Fellow at State Policy Network, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a regular Forbes contributor.

Kerry’s research interests include homeschooling and schooling alternatives, self-directed learning, education entrepreneurship, parent empowerment, school choice, and family and child policy. Her articles have appeared at The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Newsweek, NPR, Education Next, Reason Magazine, Washington Examiner, City Journal, Entrepreneur, and the Journal of School Choice, among others. She has a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bowdoin College.