*Reserve your seats by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu or calling (501) 683-5239
“Overcoming Addiction and Ending the Stigma,” Ginny Atwood Lovitt
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Ginny Atwood Lovitt is the executive director of the Chris Atwood Foundation, which works to provide recovery support and resources to people and families affected by addiction, to change the conversation and policies about addiction from ones of stigma to support, and to prevent the disease from taking hold of future generations. The Chris Atwood Foundation began in 2013 after the Atwood family lost their son and brother, Chris, to an accidentally fatal heroin overdose. He passed away at age 21, following a 6-year battle with addiction.
“The Robinson Center: Honoring the Past — Anticipating the Future”
Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. (Robinson Center)
– Join us for a panel discussion on the history and future of the Robinson Center. Members of the renovation project will talk about the rich history, the design details of the project, the economic impact to the region, the capabilities of the building going forward, and the significant impact to the arts in central Arkansas.
The panel includes:
Mark Stodola (Mayor, City of Little Rock)
Gretchen Hall (president & CEO, Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau)
Kevin McClurkan (management partner, Ennead Architects)
David Porter (principal, Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects)
Moderator: Skip Rutherford (dean of the Clinton School of Public Service)
“Sandboxes to Ballot Boxes: Creating a Local Children’s Movement,” Margaret Brodkin
Monday, November 14, 2016 at 12:00 Noon (Sturgis Hall)
– Kids can’t vote. Their needs often fall at the bottom of civic priorities where police and fire prevail in cutthroat local budget battles. Margaret Brodkin has spent 30 years successfully fighting for children – first in San Francisco and now in communities throughout California. She turned child advocates and service providers into a political force to be reckoned with in her home city – creating the country’s first local dedicated budget carve-out for children, which now garners $75 Million annually for children’s services. Brodkin will describe the strategies for taking on City Hall, as well as using the electoral process to create local dedicated funding streams for kids. Brodkin argues that the greatest opportunity for political success on behalf of children is at the local level, where innovative policy can flourish.
Taylor Wilson
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 12:00 Noon (Sturgis Hall)
– Physics wunderkind Taylor Wilson astounded the science world when, at age 14, he became the youngest person in history to produce fusion. The University of Nevada-Reno offered a home for his early experiments when Wilson’s worried parents realized he had every intention of building a reactor in their garage. Wilson now intends to fight nuclear terror in the nation’s ports, with a homemade radiation detector priced much lower than most current devices. In 2012, Wilson’s dreams received a boost when he became a recipient of the $100,000 Thiel Prize. Wilson now intends to revolutionize the way we produce energy, fight cancer, and combat terrorism using nuclear technology.
“Incarceration in Arkansas: A Public Health Crisis and A Call to Action,” Nickolas Zaller
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 12:00 Noon (Sturgis Hall)
– Nickolas Zaller is an associate professor in the department of health and health education at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Boozman College of Public Health and received his Ph.D. in international health, focusing on disease control and prevention, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has done extensive research on physical and mental health issues related to incarceration, and re-entry. Arkansas now leads the nation in the percentage of prison population growth.
“Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm From Scratch”
Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
– Lucie Amundsen, co-founder and marketing chick for Locally Laid Egg Company, tells the story of how a midwestern family with no agriculture experience went from a few backyard chickens to a full-fledged farm. The newbie-farmers also deal with their own shortcomings, making for a failed inspection and intense struggles to keep livestock alive during a brutal winter. But with a heavy dose of humor, they learn to negotiate the highly stressed no-man’s-land known as Middle Agriculture. Amundsen sees firsthand how these mid-sized farms, situated between small-scale operations and mammoth factory farms, are vital to rebuilding America’s local food system.
“From Banking to the Thorny World of Politics,” former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
– Shaukat Aziz served as Prime Minister of Pakistan between 2004 and 2007, following five years as its Finance Minister and thirty years at Citibank. While in office, he steered one of the biggest economic turnarounds in recent history, taking Pakistan from the brink of bankruptcy. His time in government was marked by high economic growth, exchange rate stability, a reduction in poverty and an upsurge in local and foreign investment. He survived a suicide bombing by Al Qaeda while on the campaign trail, driving him to engage in the fight against global terrorism.
Richard Brodhead, President of Duke University
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 12:00 Noon (Sturgis Hall)
– Richard H. Brodhead is the ninth President of Duke University and the William Preston Few Professor of English. Since arriving at Duke in 2004, Brodhead has enriched undergraduate education, working to unify Duke’s academic opportunities with the residential experience. Brodhead led the expansion of Duke’s financial aid endowment to ensure that admitted students can afford to attend regardless of their financial circumstances. Under his leadership, Duke has engaged in a renewal of iconic campus buildings that has preserved historic exteriors while transforming interiors into welcoming spaces that foster true community. Duke also established the Duke Global Health Institute, an interdisciplinary center that works to translate research findings to address health care inequities and improve the health of people around the world, and launched the signature program DukeEngage, which gives Duke undergraduates the opportunity to apply their classroom knowledge in service to society, either in the U.S. or around the world.
*Reserve your seats by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu or calling (501) 683-5239.
*If you are unable to attend a public program in person, you can watch most programs live online here.
Responses