“CeaseFire Illinois: Reducing Violence In Chicago,” Tio Hardiman
Monday, October 1 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Hardiman is the director of CeaseFire Illinois, an award-winning public health model that has been scientifically proven to reduce shootings and killings. Since joining CeaseFire in 1999, Hardiman helped oversee expansion of the program from five Chicago-based community sites to 26 sites throughout Illinois.
Karen Korematsu, co-founder of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education
Tuesday, October 2 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Founded in 2009, the Korematsu Institute advances pan-ethnic civil rights and human rights through education. The institute is named for Fred Korematsu, who spent 40 years fighting his 1942 arrest for refusing to be incarcerated in the government’s WWII incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. His conviction was finally overturned by a federal court in San Francisco in 1983, a pivotal moment in civil rights history.
“From Death Row to Freedom,” Ray Krone
Thursday, October 4 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Krone was wrongfully convicted of murder in Arizona in 1992. He spent 10 years in prison, including time on death row, before he was exonerated in 2002. He was the 100th former death row inmate to be exonerated since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. He now travels the country raising awareness about wrongful conviction and speaking out against capital punishment.
“The Triple Agent,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joby Warrick
Monday, October 8 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
– In “The Triple Agent,” Warrick chronicles a 2009 suicide bombing on a CIA base in Afghanistan by a purported informant who was actually an Al Qaeda operative. The explosion killed seven CIA officers, a Jordanian intelligence officer who was a member of the royal family, a CIA-trained Afghan driver and the suicide bomber himself.
“The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns,” author Sasha Issenberg
Tuesday, October 9 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
– In “The Victory Lab,” Issenberg follows the maverick operatives and academics now calling the shots in major American political campaigns. Armed with research from behavioral psychology, data-mining, and randomized experiments, the smartest campaigns now believe they know who you will vote for even before you do.
“International Public Service,” a panel of Clinton School students
Thursday, October 11 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Five Clinton School students will discuss the international public service projects they completed this summer as part of the Master of Public Service degree program. The participating students traveled to Belize, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Israel and the Philippines.
“The New Urbanism: Sustainable Urban Retail Planning in America,” Robert Gibbs
Monday, October 15, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Gibbs is considered one of the foremost urban retail planners in America. He is a recognized leader in the New Urbanism, having pioneered the implementation of its environmentally sustainable principles of Traditional Town Planning and Smart Growth as an antidote to suburban sprawl. For the past 25 years, Gibbs has been active in developing innovative yet practical methods for applying modern trends in commercial development to more than 300 town centers and historic cities here and abroad.
“The Fifth Wave: A Strategic Vision for Mobile Internet Innovation, Investment and Return,” author Collins Hemingway
Tuesday, October 16, at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
– In “The Fifth Wave,” Hemingway explains the mobile internet revolution and how it will alter life, society and commerce. He wrote the book to help investors understand how to analyze and value technology and help businesses develop the right approaches to take advantage of the commercial opportunities within the mobile internet.
“Hope and Change to Changemaking,” Henry De Sio
Thursday, October 18 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– The former COO at Obama for America, De Sio was the founder and president of Way Forward Strategies, a firm that promotes leadership excellence, impact communications and high performance organization through consulting services. Currently, he is working with the nonprofit Ashoka, leading the “Frame Change” initiative aimed at preparing the next generation of changemakers.
Manuel Pastor, professor of American studies and Ethinicty at the University of Southern California
Friday, October 19 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Pastor will visit the Clinton School as part of the Center on Community Philanthropy “scholars in residence” program. His most recent book, “Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future” documents the gap between progress in racial attitudes and racial realities, and offers a new set of strategies for both talking about race and achieving racial equity.
“The Truth about the Nineteenth Amendment: Its History, Meaning and Impact,” Bernadette Cahill
Tuesday, October 23 at 6:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Since American women won the right to vote in 1920, the history of the more than 70-year campaign by suffragists at both the state and national levels has been largely overlooked.Bernadette Cahill, an independent scholar on women’s suffrage, will discuss that history, emphasizing the links between the national campaigns and what women did in Arkansas.
Michael Elliott, president and CEO of ONE
Thursday, October 25 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Cofounded by Bono, ONE is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support smart and effective policies and programs that save lives, put kids in school and improve futures.
Arkansas Puzzle Day 2012
Friday, October 26 at 4:30 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– The Clinton School will welcome crossword and Sudoku puzzle enthusiasts for the Sixth annual Arkansas Puzzle Day. The event will feature crossword and Sudoku contests, and a presentation by David Kwong, a veteran crossword puzzle constructor for the New York Times, L.A. Times and other national publications. A magician who has produced films with David Copperfield, Kwong’s presentation will be a puzzle-themed magic show.
*Reserve your seats by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu, or calling 501-683-5239.
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