Education for the world we’re building next.

Ashira Darwish

Drawing on Sufi whirling, somatic release, and indigenous Palestinian practices this is a transformative journey into embodied resistance and collective healing.

Dr. Laura Basu

Learn exactly what capitalism is and how it works, analyse how our economic system affects our personal lives and create your own personal vision for a new economy.

Dr. Negar Razavi

Using a people-centered, anthropological approach, this course explores what it means to be an “expert” in an information age where everyone from TikTok influencers to AI claim expertise.

Hanieh Khosroshahi

An eight-week course that invites learners to imagine and build equitable, liberatory futures—starting with themselves. Through a framework spanning Self, Community, Work, and Environment, participants explore how personal transformation connects to systemic change. Blending design, systems thinking, and storytelling with decolonial and community-based practices, the course equips learners with practical tools, reflective frameworks, and a supportive network to lead with integrity, care, and accountability.

Saja Amro

This course reimagines the classroom as both a site of learning and a battleground of power. Together, we’ll examine how space shapes pedagogy—how walls, hierarchies, and spatial design can either reproduce or dismantle systems of control. Through radical pedagogy, urbanism, and spatial inquiry, we’ll explore what it means to “un-design” the classroom: to create environments that respond to the bodies, experiences, and knowledges of those within them. What happens when learning spills beyond the institution—into the street, the landscape, the city—and the boundaries between teacher and student, study and life, begin to blur?

In this class, we unpack racial trauma, explore our identities, and find our voices in a world that often wants to silence us. We retrace history to understand how modern society upholds white supremacy and causes extensive harm to BIPOC communities. Using that knowledge, we consciously move away from white models of success, learn how to become more comfortable with our identities, and re-design our life based on the values that matter most to us. We will also learn how to leverage our power, and organize in community to usher in the systemic change we need. 

Instructors: Sarah Seraj, Ph.D. is an outspoken psychologist, data-driven DEI Advisor,  and the co-founder & Chief Technology Officer of A Better Force.

Saamiya Seraj, Ph.D. is a fierce BIPOC coach and consultant, creating anti-oppressive workplaces and communities, through her role as the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of A Better Force.

This course invites participants to embrace a more conscious and intentional way of living, grounded in sustainability, simplicity, and care for the Earth. Drawing from the zero-waste movement, indigenous wisdom, and behavioral psychology, participants will explore practical strategies to reduce environmental impact, shift daily habits, and foster deeper connections with the natural world. From slow living and chemical-free practices to effective environmental storytelling, the course offers tools to reimagine our relationship with land, community, and self—nurturing a lifestyle rooted in awareness, creativity, and collective well-being.

Instructor: Najla Abdellatif is a Swedish-Palestinian environmental advocate and founder of Zero Waste Palestine, a platform that inspires individuals across the Arab world to embrace mindful, waste-free living.

What happens when doing good no longer feels good? This course is a deeply personal journey into the ethical and moral dilemmas of working in international development, as seen through nearly three decades of experience in Pakistan. Using my widely shared blog series Why I Left Development as a foundation, we’ll explore the contradictions, questions, and discomforts that arise when good intentions collide with global systems of power.

Instructor: Themrise Khan is an independent development professional and researcher with almost 30 years of practitioner and policy-based experience in international development, aid effectiveness, gender, and global migration.

This course explores the evolving relationship between human imagination and machine-generated creativity in the age of artificial intelligence. Starting with a psychological and philosophical grounding in human creativity and imagination, students will journey through the aesthetic, ethical, and labor dimensions of AI's impact on the creative process. Weekly sessions blend theory, reflections, discussions, and some hands-on experimentation with AI tools is explored later in the course.

Instructor: Mayra Ruiz-McPherson, PhD(c), MA, MFA is a technology ethicist and qualitative futurist focused on affective computing, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, humanoid robotics, and the expanding world of human-and-machine relationships.

This course is about intentionally studying US imperialism in our everyday lives. It has been said that twenty-first century US imperialism evades detection, and critique, precisely because it appears diffuse and lacks a linear narrative. However research reveals that the “invisibilization” of US empire in everyday life is based on state and non-state propaganda. In this class, we focus on pulling back the layers through deep readings, films, podcasts, and critical discussion. Students will analyze their everyday lives to consider how they might extricate themselves from US empire and its violence.

Instructor: Dr. Mariam Durrani is Professorial Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Peace, Human Rights, and Cultural Relations at American University. She is an interdisciplinary anthropologist whose scholarship and teaching focuses on global racialization, language, migration, education, and food studies.