I am trying to send a post request with an authorization key as a parameter and keep receiving an error: "Program.user" must be a "User" instance

Question

The error I keep receiving is: ValueError: Cannot assign "<django.contrib.auth.models.AnonymousUser object at 0x102704820>": "Program.user" must be a "User" instance.

I am using Redux and making the post request using an action called createProgram which looks like this

export const createProgram = () => async (dispatch, getState) => {
    try{
        dispatch({ type: PROGRAM_CREATE_REQUEST})

        const {
            userLogin: { userInfo },
        } = getState()

        const config = {
            header: {
                'Content-type': 'application/json',
                Authorization: `Bearer ${userInfo.token}`
            }
        }

        const { data } =  await axios.post(
            `/api/programs/program-create/`,
            {},
            config
        )

        dispatch({
            type: PROGRAM_CREATE_SUCCESS,
            payload: data,
        })

    } catch (error) {
        dispatch({
            type: PROGRAM_CREATE_FAIL,
            payload: error.response && error.response.data.detail
            ? error.response.data.detail 
            : error.message
        })
    }
}

I am using Dango for the backend and the createProgram view and model look as such:

@api_view(['POST'])
def createProgram(request):
    user = request.user

    program = Program.objects.create(
        user = user,
        name = 'Empty Name'
    )

    serializer = ProgramSerializer(program, many=False)
    return Response(serializer.data)

class Program(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=CASCADE, null=False)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    dateCreated = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    # lastWorkout = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=False) #I have to fix this 

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.name) + ' - ' + str(self.user.first_name)