A Conversation With Grown Unschoolers

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HALIE BARRICK (M.A.) is a life-long radical unschooler living in Northern Vermont. Currently she blends her passion for partnership-based horsemanship with her experiences as a self-directed learner through her new business Growing Edge Equine*imity, providing opportunities for equine-assisted personal and professional development. Together with her mother Michelle (M.Ed.), she offers workshops and coaching to support parents and educators in shifting from "power over" to "power with” relationships with young people, particularly around peaceful parenting and self-directed education. She's happy to be contacted on: [email protected]

RUBEN JAI is a life long unschooler, free schooler, and advocate for self-directed education from Chicago, IL. They have volunteered and interned at Alcove Learning, Lighthouse Holyoke, and Tallgrass Sudbury School. They hold a B.A from Bennington College in music and ethnomusicology. Their songs and compositions focus on everyday life, ecology, nostalgia, and storytelling. You can find their music on most platforms under Ruben Jai. Reach out on Instagram: @rubenjaii

TEO KORITZ is a Swedish-Mexican neurodivergent unschooler who left conventional school at ten to pursue self-directed learning. He explores humanist studies, sciences, arts, and homesteading skills. Passionate about social and political issues, he enjoys reading, hiking, conlanging, and gaming. Teo is multilingual, speaking Spanish, Swedish, and English. You can contact him on: [email protected]

The oldest of four in her family, ALEXIA CLARKSON-ROWNTREE filled her childhood days playing, up to the age of 17 when she chose to study Audio Engineering (although that still felt like play). She assumed that’s what all homeschoolers did. Now raising her own four children, she protects their childhood by prioritizing self-directed play, following their curiosities, and connection with family.

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ESTHER JONES is a mindfulness teacher, deschooling coach and mother of three unschooled children. She is the Co-Founder of The Unschooling Summit, author of The Parent's Handbook to Unschooling Yourself and host of The Unschool Space podcast, in which she explores unschooling with other unschooling parents. 

MELISSA CROCKETT-JOYOUE is a Māori, AuDHD mama of two unschooled neurodivergent children. She is the Co-Founder of The Unschooling Summit and the Founder of Weave ND, an online membership community supporting neurodivergent unschooling families with a focus on capacity building and connection for the parents.