Hannah Maruyama is the founder of Degree Free and the author of The Degree Free Way. She built her own Degree Free career in AI and machine learning, and now helps parents and young adults think clearly about education, work, and career paths, especially when the old default of "just go to college" no longer fits.

Hannah built her own Degree Free career in AI and machine learning. She knows the path works because she walked it herself. She's spent years since working directly with families looking at the alternatives to a default college path: weighing real costs against real outcomes, and finding routes to great work that don't start with four years and a loan.
What she kept seeing was the same gap. Families had plenty of fear and sticker shock, and almost nowhere to turn for clear, practical guidance.
So she built one. Degree Free is the result: helping families make confident, clear-eyed decisions about what comes next. Her book, The Degree Free Way, lays out that playbook.
"You don't have to go to college. You do have to make a plan. Let's make one that fits their goals."
Degree Free helps young adults and their parents build a clear, specific plan to a great career, without a four-year degree. Instead of a mountain of student loan debt, families get real next steps: what to learn, where to start, and how to land the work.
Through it, Hannah has helped more than 18,000 families rethink the college-or-bust decision, with a message that's reached more than 63 million people: there's more than one path to a career you're proud of.

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