CompletedGreyt Big Talk

Greyt Big Talk w/ Margo Hudson

Chaos into Opportunity

Margo Hudson shares her story about leaving school and home after 10th grade, getting her GED in her 50s, and how it has changed her life.

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Margo Hudson
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Margo Hudson

Adult literacy advocate and tutor

Margo Hudson is a Cleveland adult literacy advocate, tutor and speaker. After leaving school in the tenth grade, she spent 11 years studying at Seeds of Literacy and took the GED test six times before earning her diploma in 2012. She went on to tutor students at Seeds who are walking the same road, and she has become one of adult education's most visible champions.

In 2016 she was named National Adult Learner of the Year, received Ohio Governor John Kasich's Courage Award and led the Pledge of Allegiance at a session of the Republican National Convention. Cleveland Magazine named her one of Cleveland's Most Interesting People in 2017, and she was a 2018 Cleveland Foundation Place.Maker. She has testified on adult education before the Ohio Senate Higher Education Committee, was honored by Who's Who in Black Cleveland in 2019, was named the first Community Literacy Fellow in 2021 and received a Cultivator Impact Award in 2022. She continues to speak on radio, television and podcasts about illiteracy in Cleveland.

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East Cleveland Public Library

East Cleveland Public Library serves the city of East Cleveland from its main library at 14101 Euclid Avenue, an original Carnegie library that opened on May 29, 1916. The Carnegie Corporation of New York helped pay for the building, John D. Rockefeller gave money for land to grow on, and the company that became GE Lighting donated its light bulbs. The building has been renovated and expanded several times. A 2005 addition brought the Debra Ann November Learning Center and the Greg L. Reese Performing Arts Center, which hosts concerts and community events. Today the library offers a makerspace, a creative print center, a free summer lunch program for young people, a Toni Morrison book club, a garden program and the Icabod Flewellen Collection.

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Margo Hudson shares her story about leaving school and home after 10th grade, getting her GED in her 50s, and how it has changed her life.