As a City Council Member in Port Townsend, Washington, Amy Howard is always seeking ways to equalize opportunities for members of her...

Many people got to know Jacqueline Velez, a graduate of the Clemente Course in Holyoke, MA, when her essay was published in O, The Oprah...

Audrey Petty joined Clemente in 2007, when she was teaching in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at...

By profession, Clemente board member Chris Eklund is a venture capitalist and investor focused on biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. But...

In January 2017, Monique Henry co-presented a paper at the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference (EQRC) in Las Vegas. Standing...

Sandy Fernandez remembers how nervous she was when she first entered the classroom in August 2017 to begin her journey in Free Minds, the...

Professor Pat Garcia brings to her teaching in Free Minds, a Clemente course in Austin, TX, her dual expertise in English Renaissance...

When Brenda Nicholson enrolled in Venture, the Clemente Course offered by Utah Humanities in Salt Lake City, she was undertaking a series...

Professor Marina van Zuylen fell in love with the Clemente model during her time teaching at Columbia University. After reading Earl...

Over the summer, Lamont Smith flew to Tokyo for his fifth Olympic Games as a video editor for NBC Sports. A 1997 graduate of the original...

In celebration of Clemente's 25th anniversary, members of the Clemente community are invited to join us for a virtual screening of the...

Recently on Clemente’s Twitter account, Ginnette Powell posted a photo of herself at her Clemente graduation, a rose in her hand and her...

Though Clemente is now an international movement with more than 30 courses spread across the globe, it all started with a single...

For Anna Mangahas, the richness of the classroom community in Chicago’s Clemente Course, the Odyssey Project, was a powerful motivator....

Amelia Templeton’s Artists in Arms brings together her two greatest passions: giving back to her veteran community and art. She was...

As a mathematics professor at Hostos Community College in the South Bronx, Dr. Moise Koffi has made it his mission to support...

Executive Director Lela Hilton

In the spring of 1996, the Clemente Course in the Humanities graduated its first class in a ceremony attended by New York City Mayor...

When Jonathan Shelley was designing his “Shakespeare and the Common Good” classes for Clemente alumni in Atlanta, he had a clear goal: to...

Rozzell Medina, who directs Portland's Clemente Course, Humanity in Perspective (HIP), shares a behind-the-scenes look at a class for...

How do we create safe and welcoming spaces for those who may have felt estranged from the classroom? How do we design educational...

Lela Hilton, Clemente's Executive Director, attended numerous virtual Clemente graduations this spring. She reflects on where we were in...

Brian Boyles, Executive Director of Mass Humanities, introduces us to the newest anthology of writing from Clemente Course graduates,...

Service in the military comes with a clearly defined purpose, and the transition to civilian life can come with uncertainty about how to...