Knowledge for Justice and Liberation

The School for Liberating Education (SLE)  is an autonomous educational space that offers knowledge that advances social and ecological justice. It is rooted in Ethnic Studies, an interdisciplinary field of study taught mainly at the college and university-level.  Ethnic Studies was the result of student-led social justice movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s across the country. In the handful of colleges and universities where Ethnic Studies was established, it became increasingly unavailable to the communities it was originally meant to serve.  SLE offers college/university-level ethnic studies, including a certificate in Applied Ethnic Studies, without the restrictive admissions requirements or high costs that ordinarily come with college/university education.  It also creates space for decolonial, reindigenized knowledge shared by educators who have worked both inside and outside traditional educational systems. Moreover, SLE's pedagogy is grounded in collective care and radical love and thus centers care for one another as well as care for Mother Earth in its approach to teaching.