Hello, I'm Kerry McDonald.

Kerry McDonald works at the intersection of education and enterprise​,​ spotlighting the entrepreneurs who are building innovative learning models across the U.S. She is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education​,​ where she leads the Education Entrepreneurship Lab and hosts the LiberatED podcast. She is also the Velinda Jonson Family Education Fellow at State Policy Network​,​ an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute​,​ and a regular contributor at Forbes.com and The 74. Kerry is the bestselling author of Unschooled: Raising Curious​,​ Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press​,​ 2019)​,​ and the author of the forthcoming book​,​ Joyful Learning: How to Find Freedom​,​ Happiness​,​ and Success Beyond Conventional Schooling (Hachette​/​PublicAffairs​,​ 2025). She has a B.A. in economics from Bowdoin College and a Master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University. Kerry lives in Cambridge​,​ Massachusetts with her husband and four children.