An End-of-Year Reflection
Lela Hilton, Clemente's National Executive Director, offers some thoughts about Clemente and the humanities as we close out 2021. When I...
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- Jul 20
- 2 min
Amy Howard: Creating Opportunities in Port Townsend, WA
As a City Council Member in Port Townsend, Washington, Amy Howard is always seeking ways to equalize opportunities for members of her...
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Meet Jacqueline Velez: Writer and Advocate
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...
- Jul 20
- 4 min
25 Lessons for 25 Years!
If you've spent time with Clemente on Facebook or Twitter this fall, you've seen our #Clemente25 campaign, highlighting 25 years of...
- Jul 20
- 2 min
Spotlight: Audrey Petty, Director of Sojourner Scholars
Audrey Petty joined Clemente in 2007, when she was teaching in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at...
- Jul 20
- 2 min
Spotlight: Chris Eklund, Member of the Clemente Board of Directors
By profession, Clemente board member Chris Eklund is a venture capitalist and investor focused on biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. But...
- Jul 20
- 2 min
Spotlight: Marina van Zuylen, National Academic Director
Professor Marina van Zuylen fell in love with the Clemente model during her time teaching at Columbia University. After reading Earl...
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Ginnette Powell: Always End Up on the Side of Good
Recently on Clemente’s Twitter account, Ginnette Powell posted a photo of herself at her Clemente graduation, a rose in her hand and her...
- Jul 20
- 2 min
Spotlight: Pat Garcia, Literature Professor at Free Minds Austin
Professor Pat Garcia brings to her teaching in Free Minds, a Clemente course in Austin, TX, her dual expertise in English Renaissance...
- Jul 20
- 2 min
Clemente's Turning 25 -- Celebrate with Us!
In the spring of 1996, the Clemente Course in the Humanities graduated its first class in a ceremony attended by New York City Mayor...
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Sandy Fernandez Believes in Always Aiming High
Sandy Fernandez remembers how nervous she was when she first entered the classroom in August 2017 to begin her journey in Free Minds, the...
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Anna Mangahas: The Value of Wrestling with Big Ideas
For Anna Mangahas, the richness of the classroom community in Chicago’s Clemente Course, the Odyssey Project, was a powerful motivator....
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Spotlight: Patricia Chui, Volunteer and Donor
Though Clemente is now an international movement with more than 30 courses spread across the globe, it all started with a single...
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Brenda Nicholson: Leaving the FLDS and Becoming a Voice for Women
When Brenda Nicholson enrolled in Venture, the Clemente Course offered by Utah Humanities in Salt Lake City, she was undertaking a series...
- Dec 2, 2021
- 3 min
Spotlight: Vivé Griffith, Director of Outreach and Engagement
Writer and educator Vivé Griffith has been part of the Clemente community for nearly fifteen years. After serving as the Academic...
- Nov 25, 2021
- 3 min
Spotlight: Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Stanley Paterson Professor of American History, Boston Clemente
Harvard professor Tim McCarthy has been part of the Boston Clemente Course in Dorchester, MA, since its founding in 2001. Recruited by...
- Nov 24, 2021
- 3 min
Meet Clarence Jackson: A Veteran Serving Veterans
Since the Vietnam War, Clarence Jackson has made it his mission to help fellow veterans find the resources and support they need in their...
- Nov 16, 2021
- 3 min
Patrick Rodriguez: Dreaming of a World Based in Grace and Forgiveness
Through the Beyond the Box Georgia campaign, Patrick Rodriguez aims to open the doors to education by removing the criminal convictions...
- Oct 8, 2021
- 3 min
Monique Henry: Still Rising
In January 2017, Monique Henry co-presented a paper at the Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference (EQRC) in Las Vegas. Standing...
- Sep 16, 2021
- 3 min
Lamont Smith: Five Olympic Games and Counting
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...
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