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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