Margo Hudson

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.