Kerry McDonald
Kerry McDonald works at the intersection of education and enterprise, spotlighting the entrepreneurs who are building innovative learning models across the U.S. She is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, where she leads the Education Entrepreneurship Lab and hosts the LiberatED podcast. She is also the Velinda Jonson Family Education Fellow at State Policy Network, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a regular contributor at Forbes.com and The 74. Kerry is the bestselling author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019), and the author of the forthcoming book, Joyful Learning: How to Find Freedom, Happiness, and Success Beyond Conventional Schooling (Hachette/PublicAffairs, 2025). She has a B.A. in economics from Bowdoin College and a Master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University. Kerry lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and four children. Kerry will be speaking at Home Tribe Con 2025
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- Online Education
- E-Learning
- Adult Education
- Homeschool Resources
- Coaching/Consulting
- Business Leadership
- Books
- Public Speaker
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- Adults
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- For Adults
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Online Education
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Cambridge, Massachusetts