This week, our good friend Ted Mitchell is in the studio to discuss innovation in higher education. Join us as he shares stories from his time as Former Under Secretary of Education and expands on how universities and colleges can tackle their toughest challenges to maximize student success. Stick with us till the end as we share some epic moments of hope.

On this episode, we talk about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA. Tune in for a conversation with the former Director of White House Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz, and Christian, a Dreamer, about what it meant for him and 800,000 others like him when the program was established and its effect on access to education. As always, join us at the end for our moments of hope.

On an emergency pod, we bring you a conversation with Kara Fitzgerald, from Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Kara grew up in Newtown, CT and was motivated by the tragedy in her own community to fight for gun violence prevention around the country. Tune in to learn about how you can get involved in your community to fight for common sense gun violence prevention.

This week we bring down the house with rockstar guest Kumar Garg. Kumar is the former Assistant Director of Innovation and Learning in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this episode, we discuss how we can organize around advancing STEM education, and incredible never-before-aired stories about the first-ever White House Science Fair. And we will end this week’s episode the same way we do every week with our Moment of Hope. Are you ready for this?

This week our hosts discuss the essential role that a school counselor plays in education and why they are a true bedrock in school systems. Appropriately, the team welcomes Kirsten Perry and talks about her journey to becoming 2018 School Counselor of the Year.

swampED talks about organizing around College Opportunity when Congress doesn't want to help you. And Nicole Hurd joins swampED to talk about her inspiration to activate recent college grads to get them to serve in schools and help more students get to and through college. We end with our Moment of Hope.

Welcome to swampED. Your hosts Eric Waldo, Kyle Lierman, and Stephanie Sprow Owens talk about their journey into the Obama Administration and the Year in Education that was 2017. Former U.S. Secretary of Education, John B. King, Jr., stops by as the first swampED guest to talk about the DeVos record on equity. Stay to the end to hear the first Moment of Hope.

We took three former Obama staffers who worked on education, put them in a room, and pressed the record button.

This is swampED. Coming February 2nd, 2018.