LA5 Club Meeting - 11/20/26: Erin Gruwell - Freedom Writers

Location: City Club

Erin Gruwell is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which led to the publication of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (1999). The 2007 film Freedom Writers Starring Hillary Swank and the 2019 PBS documentary Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart are based on her story.

Erin also has a story about the importance of Rotary that you probably don’t know…