Casey Lartigue Jr.
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Casey Lartigue Jr.

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Casey Lartigue is now based in South Korea where he is co-founder and co-president of Freedom Speakers International along with South Korean researcher Lee Eunkoo. He is co-author with Songmi Han of the book "Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter's Search for Her Mother and Herself." He is also co-editor of the book "Educational Freedom in Urban America: Brown v. Board after Half a Century." He is the 2017 winner of the Special Contribution” Award presented by the Hansarang Rural Cultural Foundation, the 2018 winner of the Challenge Korea (Global) Award, the 2019 winner of Challenge Korea’s “Challenge Maker” Award, the 2021 Social Contribution Award from the Korea Hana Foundation, and in 2022 he was honored as a Seoul Honorary Citizen. He is co-director of Giving Tuesday Korea, co-chair of the Coalition of the 1969 Hijacking of KAL YS-11, a lecturer in public speaking at the Seoul University of Foreign Studies, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Korea-America Association. In the USA, he became known as an advocate for educational choice for low-income children. Lartigue was a policy analyst with the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom in Washington, D.C. and the Research and Communications Manager with Fight For Children. He was a frequent commentator on National Public Radio’s “News and Notes,”co-host of “The Casey Lartigue Show” on XM Radio 169 The Power, and Guest Host of the Mind Yo’ Business radio show. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, the Board of Trustees of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association in Washington, D.C., and a former member of the Young Executive Network of the Washington Scholarship Fund. He has written and spoken around the world. He testified before the US Congress in 2003, the Washington DC Civil Rights Commission in 2008 and was a featured speaker at the Houses of Parliament (UK) in 2017. He has spoken at the National Press Club, Georgetown Law Center, Florida State University, Yale University, Teachers’ College at Columbia University, Tufts University, Harvard Law School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Korea University, Seoul National University, the Asia Liberty Forum, Oxford University, University College of London and the Shanghai Austrian Economics Summit. In September 2017, he and TNKR co-founder Eunkoo Lee gave a TEDx Talk that is now on the TED Website. His writings have been published by USA Today, the Washington Post, Washington Times, Education Week, Forbes, FoxNews, Washington Afro-American, National Review online, the Korea Times, The Root, Education Next, United Press International, the Baltimore Sun, and the Asian Wall Street Journal. He has been a featured guest on BBC World News, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Howard University Television, Radio Free Asia, Pacifica Radio, Voice of America, Unification Media Group, TBS eFM, and the Rush Limbaugh Show. Lartigue received a bachelor’s degree from the Harvard University Extension School and a master’s degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
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