Category: Alumni

Mike Townsend, a 2007 graduate of the Clinton School, recently landed a new job as a volunteer engagement coordinator for Habitat for Hummanity’s work in Africa and the Middle East.

Clinton School student Penelope Sur has joined Maybelline as the assistant to the company’s president. In her new position, Penelope will be working on recruitment and community outreach. Maybelline currently employs 600 people in its facility which is located about 20 miles from downtown Little Rock.

Inaugural Clinton School graduate David Morrissey has been named the new executive director of the United States International Council on Disabilities. David previously served as a Disability Policy Leadership Fellow at the Association of University Centers on Disabilities.

Clinton School student Jay Thompson has accepted a position as Neighbors Project Coordinator at George Washington University. Thompson will be managing a more than 1,000-student volunteer placement program at GW, working with 35 community agencies.

Congrats to Clinton School graduate Scott Curran and his wife Amy who welcomed their first child, Raymond Christopher Curran, into the world this weekend. Word is both mom a baby are doing well. Scott now works as deputy general counsel for the William J. Clinton Foundation. Congrats Currans!

The good news just keeps coming on the job front. Clinton School student Sara Himelfarb (’09) will be the Dean of Curriculum and Instruction at a new charter school serving the Little Rock community, set to open in 2009. The Little Rock Preparatory Academy (www.littlerockprep.org) was founded through a Building Excellent Schools Fellowship and sets high academic and behavioral expectations for all students.

We recently learned that Clinton School student Lindsey Clark of Marion, Ohio, has will be hired as a research assistant for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity and the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. She’ll working on both research and policy formulation regarding childhood obesity. Congrats Lindsey!

Clinton School inaugural graduate Katie Snodgrass was recently acknowledged in The Clarion-Ledger newspaper for her new job as an account planner and diplomat for the Southern Growth Studio in Oxford, Miss. CLICK HERE for the article.

It’s always exciting to see hard work pay off, which is the case with Clinton School student Ryan Lewis who recently landed a job as operations manager for 826 National, a nonprofit tutoring, writing and publishing organization dedicated to helping 6 to 18 year-olds enhance their writing skills.

Clinton School student Nicholas Hall joined Virgil Miller of Metropolitan Bank and me Monday to raise funds for NPR programming on KUAR/KLRE in Central Arkansas.