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Kerry McDonald

Kerry McDonald is a contributor at Forbes and is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education and host of the LiberatED Podcast. She is also the Velinda Jonson Family Education Fellow at State Policy Network, an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and author of "Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom" (Chicago Review Press, 2019). Her articles have appeared at The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, NPR, Newsweek, Reason Magazine, City Journal, Education Next, Entrepreneur, and the Journal of School Choice, among others. Kerry earned an undergraduate degree in economics from Bowdoin College and a master's degree in education policy from Harvard University.