Dr. Laura Emiko Soltis is a human rights educator originally from rural Minnesota, raised in a biracial household. Emiko now leads Freedom University in Atlanta, Georgia, a modern-day freedom school that offers rigorous college preparation classes, college and scholarship application assistance, and movement leadership training for undocumented students banned from equal access to public higher education in Georgia. As an activist, Emiko has engaged in numerous direct actions and has been arrested four times in the Kingian tradition of nonviolent civil disobedience.