Casey Lartigue is an advocate and activist for educational freedom who has gained recognition in both South Korea and the United States. He 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 the “with” author of Songmi Han’s book Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korea Daughter’s Search for Her Mother & Herself.He is co-editor of the 2004 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, and the 2019 winner of Challenge Korea’s “Challenge Maker” Award. In 2021, he was awarded a special Letter of Commendation by the Korea Hana Foundation.
He is executive director of Giving Tuesday Korea, co-chair of the “Bring My Father Home” coalition, a lecturer in public speaking at the Seoul University of Foreign Studies, and a columnist and blogger with the Korea Times newspaper.
He has written and spoken around the world. He testified before the US Congress in 2003, the Washington DC Civil Rights Commission in 2008, was a featured speaker at the Houses of Parliament (UK) in 2017, and has been a featured speaker at the South Korea National Assembly on several occasions. His writings have been published by many media outlets, including USA Today, Education Week, and the Washington Post.
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. He is now a Goodwill Ambassador for the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
