Meet Amy Howard, Port Townsend Graduate and City Council Member
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This reflection originally appeared on our site in 2018. Amy Howard is a member of the Port Townsend, WA City Council and is the...

- Aug 17, 2022
- 2 min
Meet Corey Saffold, Odyssey Graduate and Change Agent
This profile originally appeared on our site in 2018. Around the state of Wisconsin, people travel to hear Corey Saffold speak. The...

- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
Meet Jewel Walcott, A Kingston Clemente Graduate Who is Rocking the Vote
This profile originally appeared on our site in 2017. One thing that’s clear about Jewel Walcott is that she never stops learning. A...

- Jul 21, 2022
- 3 min
Meet Irene Salas, A Free Minds Graduate Expanding Her Horizons
This profile originally appeared on our site in 2017. On the last night of class this year in Free Minds, Irene Salas addressed the...


- Jul 13, 2022
- 1 min
The Power of Telling Your Story: Portland Alumna Sosan Amiri's Journey to Advocacy
This spring, in graduation ceremonies across the country, Clemente students spoke passionately about how their time in the classroom gave...


- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
Meet Dianna Calvente, Odyssey Project Graduate Sharing Her Love of Learning with Her Own Students
Though Dianna Calvente is celebrating her graduation from our Chicago course, Odyssey Project, this spring, her journey with Clemente...


- May 25, 2022
- 3 min
Meet Samantha Jordan, Odyssey Project Graduate Changing her Neighborhood for the Better
Samantha Jordan found the Chicago Clemente course, Odyssey Project, in the midst of a personal reckoning. The pandemic shutdown had...


- May 11, 2022
- 3 min
Meet Bill Murphy, CVI Graduate with an Extraordinary Story
After he retired, Bill Murphy realized he had a story to tell. He began taking writing workshops in his hometown of Boston, which led him...


- Sep 2, 2021
- 3 min
Amelia Templeton: Veteran and Artist
Amelia Templeton’s Artists in Arms brings together her two greatest passions: giving back to her veteran community and art. She was...


- May 26, 2021
- 4 min
New Board Member Lamont Smith Reflects on How Clemente Helped "Light My Path"
In May, the Clemente Board of Directors welcomed two new members. One of them, Lamont Smith, is a 1997 Clemente graduate who has gone on...


- Mar 15, 2021
- 2 min
Erik and the Bhagavad Gita
With 200,000 verses, the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata is considered the world’s longest narrative. Erik Sean Montoya-Treanor, 2007...


- Feb 10, 2021
- 2 min
The World Premiere of a Very Clemente Story
Kafi Dixon and Carl Chandler are the true-life lead characters in a new documentary film inspired by the Clemente Course in the...


- Jan 28, 2021
- 1 min
From Odyssey to a Cap and Gown
In the UW Odyssey Project in Madison, WI, co-director/founder Emily Auerbach and the entire team work to assure that the pathway from the...
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