Welcome to Freedom Classrooms.
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Our story begins at Harvard University through the Law, Education, and Justice focus area at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. For five years, we collaborated to provide education in carceral spaces from Massachusetts to California, encompassing course topics from Music & Justice, Patriarchy, Hip Hop, and God, and This is America: A Civic Engagement Seminar. Emerging from this team, we formed a collective that continues to facilitate courses in the DC Jail such as Freedom in the Making: Art History and Creative Self-Expression, building Freedom Classrooms in and beyond carceral settings.

This work grew from a simple belief: everyone deserves access to learning that practices dignity, sparks creativity, and builds community.
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Today, Freedom Classrooms continues that vision. Inspired by the efforts of educators, artists, and activists of the Freedom schools movement, we create classrooms where curiosity and connection thrive— where everyone is empowered as both a teacher and student.
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At Freedom Classrooms, education is an opportunity to imagine and practice new possibilities for justice, together.

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