We connect displaced people with students who need them, turning one conversation into income and opportunity
Conversations Unbound provides forcibly displaced people with opportunities to tutor students online in Arabic, French, and Spanish. Students strengthen their language skills through one-on-one conversations, while engaging in meaningful cross-cultural dialogue that encourages them to think critically about forced displacement.
OUR IMPACT
6,531
Language learners used Conversations Unbound
20,804
Sessions facilitated
$184,832
Earned by Conversation Partners
DIGNIFIED WORK
Displaced people earn real income as online language tutors
We connect displaced people fluent in Arabic, French, or Spanish with high school and university students who need conversation practice. Partners set their own schedules, conduct sessions through our platform, and keep 100% of what they earn. For most, it's 5-20x more than other work available to them.
Conversation Partners keep 100% of what they earn
Most language platforms take a commission from their tutors (often 20-40%). We don't. Instead, we charge participating institutions a service fee that covers our costs. Every dollar earned in a session goes directly to the Partner who ran it.
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
Students practice a language with someone who changes how they think about the world
We integrate Conversations Unbound directly into high school and university language curricula, pairing each student one-on-one with a Conversation Partner for the semester. Students improve their conversational French, Spanish, or Arabic — and through their participation in the program, they think critically about forced displacement.
We are proud to work with language learners, Conversation Partners, and team members of all different genders, sexual orientations, races, religions, abilities, socioeconomic statuses, geographic locations, and immigration statuses.