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Bria Bloom (she/her) grew up unschooled, is an unschooling parent of two, and loves to work and play as an SDE facilitator. She is the co-founder of Flying Squads; a partnership partnering coach; a facilitator and founder of PDX Flying Squads, a community for self-directed young people in Portland, OR; a writer; and the Organizational Manager for the international advocacy group, the Alliance for Self-Directed Education (ASDE). Bria is also a martial artist and a dancer, and a plant-based cooking enthusiast. She spends a lot of her time reading and discussing education and parenting ideas with anyone who is interested.
 
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Alexander Khost (he/him) is the founder of SDE Youth Rights Accreditation, with a long history of working as a practitioner and advocate of youth rights. Alex lives part-time in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where he volunteers at the self-directed Fearless School and part-time in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Alex co-founded Flying Squads, a youth liberation and anti-oppression collective that believes in the abolition of divided spaces between young people and their community. He is also a Board Member at the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. He has four children of his own that all are raised through trustful parenting.

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