Alumni Profiles

By Taylor Sims • March 22, 2026
Amy Howard on how Clemente changed her life and her community.
By Taylor Sims • December 17, 2025
25 years ago, The Clemente Course partnered with Illinois Humanities to offer free college-level humanities courses to low-income adults in Chicago through The Odyssey Project and Proyecto Odisea . Clemente Executive Director, Dr. Aaron Rosen, recently joined Dulce Maria Diaz (Odyssey Project alumna and founder of the SHE Gallery ) and Dr. Rebecca Amato (Director of Teaching and Learning, Illinois Humanities) on the Federation of State Humanities podcast Humanities= . In this episode, hear how this transformative program changes lives!
By Aaron Rosen • September 6, 2023
Clemente alum Joan Shauri shares her journey
By Aaron Rosen • July 7, 2023
"Graduates hail the mind-opening values of the Clemente Course in the Humanities; Codman Square Health Center hosts cultural programming"
By Vive Griffith • September 6, 2022
This summer’s launch of the Inflection Points Seminar, “Time, Memory, and Transformation: Restoring the Salish Sea,” offered through...
By Vive Griffith • August 24, 2022
This reflection originally appeared on our site in 2018. Amy Howard is a member of the Port Townsend, WA City Council and is the...
By Vive Griffith • August 17, 2022
This profile originally appeared on our site in 2018. Around the state of Wisconsin, people travel to hear Corey Saffold speak. The...
By Vive Griffith • August 3, 2022
This profile originally appeared on our site in 2017. One thing that’s clear about Jewel Walcott is that she never stops learning. A...
By Linnea Iannazzone • July 13, 2022
This spring, in graduation ceremonies across the country, Clemente students spoke passionately about how their time in the classroom gave...
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