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This FREE ONLINE NANO-TRAINING is brought to you by the Artist Legal Cafe, a cross-sector partnership between SELC, Vital Arts, and Movement Law, an artist-led initiative that offers direct services and capacity-building to individual artists, artist collectives, and arts organizations. The ALC is generously supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the Gerbode Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Bay Area Cultural Funders for Equity, the Hewlett Foundation, and the City of Oakland.

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Navigating Student Debt
A Free Training with Maddy Clifford, Debt Collective

The student debt landscape is changing rapidly. This training will provide a broad overview of student debt, relief options, and ways to organize for a payment pause.

ABOUT MADDY CLIFFORD

Maddy Clifford is a dedicated arts leader, narrative strategist, and cultural organizer with over 20 years of experience in the arts sector. She specializes in communications, political education, leadership development, marketing, event curation, grant writing, facilitation, and more. Her passion lies in turning complex concepts into captivating, accessible narratives through both written and digital media.

As a literary and performance artist, Maddy has collaborated with GRAMMY-nominated musicians. She released a number of hip-hop projects, including a short-form album: "downCHANTS" and the musical score for an aerial dance piece: "Apparatus of Repair" with Flyaway Productions. She has co-produced podcasts and performed stand up comedy sets. Maddy also has an extensive background as a teaching-artist and facilitated workshops throughout the West Coast, and internationally, in Uganda and Argentina.

 

ABOUT DEBT COLLECTIVE

Debt Collective is a debtor's union fighting to cancel debts and defend millions of households. Our organizing has changed lives and put universal student debt cancellation and free public college on the map. We are continuing to fight for the abolition of all student loans and the provisions of free, reparative public college. But we have even bigger ambitions. We are now busy building power with tenants struggling to pay the ever-rising rent, medical debtors crushed by unjust healthcare bills, and other debtors and allies. The Debt Collective’s vision and goals are laid out in our manifesto, Can’t Pay Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition, which outlines a strategy for debtor organizing that goes far beyond student debt to include housing debt, bail and probation debt, credit card debt, utility debt, municipal and sovereign debt and more.More information at https://debtcollective.org  

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