Tracy Swinton Bailey, PhD, FOREVER FREE: A True Story of Hope in the Fight for Child Literacy

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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"I realized that being a good reader and helping other people read well is a political act. You take a stand in society when you decide to chase after that." Along with instilling a lifelong love of reading, Tracy Swinton Bailey's father taught her how powerful literacy could be, which inspired her to start the literacy nonprofit Freedom Readers in 2010. Tracy talked with Zibby about her memoir, Forever Free, the incredible results Freedom Readers has produced, and how the group plans to grow in a post-pandemic world. Listeners can get involved at freedomreaders.org.

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0:40.6	Tracy Swinton Bailey is the author of Forever Free, a true story of hope in the fight for child literacy. Tracy earned her PhD in education
0:47.9	with a specialization in language and literacy at the University of South Carolina in 2013.
0:53.7	She began her career as a high school English instructor and went on to found Freedom
0:57.7	Readers, an after school and summer literacy program that was designed and implemented to
1:02.4	support families in low-income areas and assist children in achieving their academic goals
1:06.8	in reading.
1:07.9	She is married to award-winning writer Isaac J. Bailey and is the mother of two children.
1:12.5	Welcome, Tracy. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Now Time to read books to discuss forever free
1:17.2	a true story of hope in the fight for child literacy. Zibby, I am super excited to be here.
1:23.8	Thank you for this opportunity to talk about the work and to get to know you a little bit better.
1:28.5	Oh, thank you. Well, you know, as I mentioned to you over email before we did this, I was just so moved
1:33.8	after reading this about all of your pioneering work and how to really tackle child literacy.
1:39.0	Not that you're the only one out there. I know so many people are focused on this very, very important
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