Freedom University
Mission Statement
Freedom University formed in the summer of 2011 in response to a spate of anti-immigrant laws passed in Georgia during the previous year. During that time, the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents banned undocumented students from the state’s most exclusive research universities. Many of these students have resided in Georgia since early childhood. Freedom University is a volunteer-driven organization that provides rigorous college-level instruction to all academically qualified students regardless of their immigration status. Our faculty are fully committed to providing our students with college courses identical to those taught at the state’s most exclusive universities. We believe that all Georgians have an equal right to a quality education. Separate and unequal access to higher education contravenes this country’s most cherished principles of equality and justice for all.
Freedom University
National Board of Advisors
Junot Díaz
Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Drown
Silvia Marina Arrom
Professor of History and Jane’s Professor of Latin American Studies
Brandeis University
Paola Bacchetta
Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies
University of California at Berkeley
Laura Briggs
Professor and Chair, Department of Women’s Studies
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Ann D. Braude
Director, Women’s Studies in Religion Program
Harvard Divinity School
Michael Denning
William R. Kenan Professor of American Studies
and Director of the Initiative on Labor and Culture
Yale University
Ada Ferrer
Assoc. Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
New York University
Neil Foley
Professor of History and American Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Tom Fritsche, Esquire
Southern Poverty Law Center
Katharine Gin
Co-founder and Director
Educators for Fair Consideration
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.,
William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies
Department of Religion
Chair, Center for African American Studies
Princeton University
Glenda Gilmore
Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies and American Studies
Yale University
Greg Grandin
Professor of History
New York University
Karen Graubart
Carl E. Koch Associate Professor of History
Notre Dame University
Nicole Guidotti-Hernández
Assoc. Professor of American Studies
University of Texas at Austin
David G. Gutiérrez
Professor of History
University of California at San Diego
Laura G. Gutiérrez
Assoc. Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Arizona
Barbara Sarah Haley
Asst. Professor of History
University of California at Los Angeles
Robin D. G. Kelley
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California
Kung Li, Esquire
Atlanta, Georgia
Claudio Lomnitz
Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology
Columbia University
Victor M. Macías González
Assoc. Professor of History
Director, Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies
University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
Nancy MacLean
Arts and Sciences Professor of History
Duke University
Florencia Mallon
Professor and Chair, Department of History
University of Wisconsin
Beatriz Manz
Professor of Ethnic Studies
University of California at Berkeley
María Elena Martínez López
Assoc. Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez
Assoc. Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of Connecticut
Naomi Paik
Asst. Professor of American Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Stephen Pitti
Professor of History and American Studies
Director of the Program in Ethnicity and Immigration
Yale University
Barbara Ransby
Professor of History and African-American Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dionicia Ramos
Assistant Director, Latin American Studies Center
The University of California at Berkeley
George J. Sánchez
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History
University of Southern California
Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Asst. Professor of Religion
University of California at Riverside
Alicia Schmidt-Camacho,
Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies
Yale University
Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Assoc. Professor of History
University of California at Santa Barbara
Steve J. Stern
Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History
University of Wisconsin
Julie Weise
Asst. Professor of International Studies
California State University at Long Beach
