About Us

Drawing inspiration from the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, Freedom Summer Collegiate recruits, trains, and funds doctoral candidates to facilitate transformative summer seminars for college-bound high school students in underserved communities. Courses are designed around the interests of the students - Freedom Fellows - and the instructors’ fields of study, and expand the horizon of Fellows’ ideas about their own educational journey.

Freedom Summer Collegiate operates as a program within the Freedom Project Network, in close collaboration with the Sunflower County Freedom Project, the Meridian Freedom Project, and the Rosedale Freedom Project.