HEARD is beginning its 4th year of the Staff Reading Initiative on Friday, April 16 at 3:30pm via Zoom. Dr. Jalil Mustaffa Bishop, Vice Provost Postdoctoral Scholar and Lecturer in the Higher Education division at GSE will facilitate a discussion about "Legislation, Policy, and the Black Student Debt Crisis." This is a Status Report funded by the NAACP about College Access, Equity, and Funding a Higher Education for the Black Public Good by Charles H.F. Davis, III, Ph.D., Jalil Mustaffa Bishop, Ph.D., Kyah King, M.Ed., & Ayan Jama, M.Ed.