Akilah S. Richards
Liberation Life Design

Little-Known Facts

• Doesn’t like spicy food at all, and might be the only island woman who will admit this out loud

• Is kinda nice with accents and could've been a whatever-people-who-are-good-at-accents-are

• In her heart, she knows it's never too late for her to become a UFC champion—except she would fangirl Amanda Nunez and forget to fight!

Meet Akilah

Akilah S. Richards is passionate about mindful partnerships and conscious parenting. She uses audio and written mediums to amplify the ways that unschooling in particular, is serving as healing grounds and liberation work for Black, non-Black Indigenous, and People of Color communities earthwide.

Her celebrated unschooling podcast, Fare of the Free Child, and the numerous workshops and gatherings she has been part of, have garnered the attention of Forbes magazine, The New York Times, Good Morning America, and most importantly, BIPOC families interested or living in more healthy, consent-based, intergenerational relationships.

Her recent experiences within the intersection of privilege, parenting, and power are detailed in her latest book, Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work (PM Press).