Enrollment for Race, Media and International Affairs 101 is now open!

Grab your spot in Karen Attiah's Resistance Summer School pilot course.

It’s happening. We’re doing this.

After a flood of interest, I’m thrilled to officially open enrollment for my Resistance Summer School!

I’ll be offering an independent, public version of my Race, Media and International Affairs graduate course I taught at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. (If you are getting this email, it means you made it off the wait-list).

When Columbia canceled my class, I realized that the work couldn’t stop — it had to evolve. In a moment when so many institutions are caving to anti-intellectual, anti-diversity forces, this work feels more crucial than ever.

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Together, we’re sharing the knowledge institutions are trying to silence and gatekeep.

While building models for rigorous, liberated, global education.

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Race, Media, and International Affairs 101 Course Highlights:

• Main weekly lectures - led by me— on the history of mass media in the West, and how constructed notions of race in journalism shape both domestic and international relations

• I am going to cap the course at 500, to keep the course as accessible as possible while making space for smaller groups and discussions.

• Based on interest, the lectures will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings, 6 pm to 7:15 pm Eastern time. This gives students at least two weekly opportunities to engage with the week’s topic

• Guest lectures + live Q&As with preeminent global thinkers

• 6 weeks of live classes starting July 2025

• Access to recordings during the 6-week course window

• Carefully curated syllabus readings + community dialogue

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Choose Your Tier and Enroll:
(Payment via [Stripe] — links below)

$1,500 — Mentorship + Patronage Tier (Purchase Here)

• Full access to all lectures and session recordings

• Weekly small-group discussion sections

• One-on-one written feedback on a piece of your writing

• Invitation to a private salon with me

• Optional acknowledgment as a founding supporter

• Supports scholarships, guest lecturer honorariums, and future offerings

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🔷 $500 — Anchor Tier (Purchase Here)

• Full access to all lectures and session recordings

• Weekly small-group discussion sections

• Supports scholarships, guest lecturer honorariums, and operations

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🔹 $300 — Discourse Tier (Purchase here)

• Full access to all lectures and session recordings

• Weekly small-group discussion sections

• Helps support access and tech operations

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🔸 $200 — Community Tier → (Purchase Here)

• Full access to all lectures and session recordings

• (Does not include small-group discussion sections)

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🔹 $100 — Supporter Tier → (Purchase Here)

• Access to session recordings only

• No live session or Q&A access

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🤝 $50 — Donation Tier → (Purchase Here)

• Help fund scholarships, guest lecturer honorariums, and operational excellence

• Perfect if you want to support but can’t enroll this time

Flexible Donation →( Donate Here)

• Can go towards scholarships, guest lecturers, tech support, and general operations

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UPDATE: 4/28 RESISTANCE SUMMER SCHOOL HAS OFFICIALLY SOLD OUT!!

We hit the 500-student cap in 48 hours. Grateful for everyone’s support!

No additional seats will be opened for Race, Media and International Affairs 101— to honor the students who committed early.

If you missed your chance to enroll, you can join the official waitlist here:

👉 [Waitlist Link]

If you would still like to support this work, donations are of course, always welcome.

Your contributions help fund scholarships and support the ongoing operations of Resistance Summer School.

👉 Donate Here

Everyone on the waitlist will be the first to hear about future offerings before they are announced publicly.

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Questions? I’ve got an FAQ for that!

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Spots are filling up fast!

As I said, they can try to cancel us all they want. But this is the community we are going to build anyway.

And this is only the start. We Move!!

In solidarity and power,
Karen

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