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Matter of Life and Debt
A bi-weekly podcast displayed as Medium Publication about people in the United States and their student debt.
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Episode 12: The Prosp(A)rity Project
Episode 12: The Prosp(A)rity Project
This week’s guest, Briana B. Franklin was the first member of her family to attend an ivy league education. But after her first semester…
Nikki Nolan
Feb 25, 2021
Episode 11: Shame[Less] Student Debt
Episode 11: Shame[Less] Student Debt
After attending art school to pursue her dreams of working in theater, Emma Klauber found herself for years making decisions to repair the…
Nikki Nolan
Feb 24, 2021
Mini-Episode with Melissa Byrne
Mini-Episode with Melissa Byrne
In this week’s mini-episode, our guest is Melissa Bryne, a senior political and community organizer who is focused on canceling student…
Nikki Nolan
Feb 24, 2021
Episode 10: Canceling Student Loan Debt
Episode 10: Canceling Student Loan Debt
This week’s guest, Winter, an organizer for the Debt Collective talks about the emotional breakdown that led him eventually to a life…
Nikki Nolan
Feb 4, 2021
Episode 9: The Student Debt Strike
Episode 9: The Student Debt Strike
Eli Campbell, shares why he is an advocate for the Student Debt Strike movement and an active member of The Debt Collective, a group that…
Nikki Nolan
Jan 30, 2021
Episode 8: Pawns in the Loan Market
Episode 8: Pawns in the Loan Market
Like many Americans who took out student loans for school, Ro Fainstein found that when she left college, her full-time job in public…
Nikki Nolan
Jan 30, 2021
Episode 7: Going Green to Get Out of the Red
Episode 7: Going Green to Get Out of the Red
After life threw them a few curveballs, this week’s guest, who chooses to remain anonymous, paid for graduate school as well as their…
Nikki Nolan
Jan 30, 2021
Episode 6: Passion and A Paycheck
Episode 6: Passion and A Paycheck
After graduating undergrad with no debt, Tameka Vasquez was surprised to learn the complexities of taking out student loans while getting…
Nikki Nolan
Jan 27, 2021
Episode 5: A Reality of No Student Debt
Episode 5: A Reality of No Student Debt
Artist Forrest Gerke grew up in a low-income household with two artist parents. He had dreams of going to art school to become a hand…
Nikki Nolan
Jan 27, 2021
Episode 4: Law School and Loan Forgiveness
Episode 4: Law School and Loan Forgiveness
In Episode 4, we talk to a government prosecutor who originally took her role as a way to pay down the more than $300,000 in student loans…
Nikki Nolan
Jan 27, 2021
Episode 3: Don’t Let Debt Define You
Episode 3: Don’t Let Debt Define You
This episode we hear from artist and writer Sarah Thibault who accumulated six figures worth of debt after attending a private art school…
Nikki Nolan
Jan 26, 2021
Episode 2: Was College Worth It?
Episode 2: Was College Worth It?
This episode we hear from Chef Ronny Miranda who has, more than most, been burned by the student loan system. When he left school he was…
Nikki Nolan
Jan 26, 2021
Episode 1: A Matter of Life and Debt
Episode 1: A Matter of Life and Debt
In the first episode of Matter of Life and Debt, host Nikki Nolan shares her personal journey with her student loans, which ended in her…
Nikki Nolan
Jan 26, 2021
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