Current Student, Kayla Brooks, Reflects On Women Lead Arkansas Workshop

Current Clinton School students, Anna Applebaum (class 9), Quiana Brown (class 9) and myself (Kayla Brooks class 8) along with Clinton School Alums Katie Hicks (class 7), Rebecca Kaufman(class 5) and Erin O’Leary (class 5), attended Women Lead Arkansas’s Campaign Training Workshop on November 16, 2013.

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Graduate Derrick Rainey Highlighted As Standout City Year Alum

Derrick Rainey’s red jacket sits on the back of his chair at Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is part of their Teacher Training Course (TTC), a yearlong program immersing him in a classroom as an apprentice teacher with a master teacher and mentor.

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Graduate Ashley Bachelder Published in Shelterforce Journal Regarding Her Work with Little Rock Tech Park

Little Rock, Arkansas, the city internationally known for the 1957 Central High School Crisis, in which an angry mob threatened the Little Rock Nine, the first black students to enter the high school after desegregation became mandatory. They had to be escorted in and out by law enforcement, and eventually the U.S. Army, to ensure their safety.

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Alum Shatkovskyy Featured for his Work with Danone in Ukraine

Clinton School graduate Anatoliy Shatkovskyy was recently featured in an interview on National Ukrainian television for his work with Danone. Anatoliy works with co-ops and their members through training and consulting services on how to increase milk production from cows and produce business plans.

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Graduate Russell CareyHired by Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

Russell Carey (‘13) has accepted a position as a program associate at the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (WRF) in Little Rock. He will be part of a team that is working to achieve the overall “Moving the Needle” goal of reducing poverty in Arkansas.

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Grad Marc Peters Pens Article on Arkansas Lottery Scholarships

Clinton School graduate Marc Peters (’12) is working as a reporter for Campus Progress, a division of the Center for American Progress focused on improving higher education. Peters recently published a story detailing the Arkansas Challenge Scholarship program, which is funded by a state lottery. Click here to read Peters’ story. Below is an excerpt:…

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