Read the powerful writings from graduates of the Clemente Course in which they explore the connections between personal experience, civic engagement and democracy.
Clementinos: Voices from the Clemente Writing Project
By Gri Martinez Saex Among mountains, valleys, and the Macacias River there is a small town twenty-one miles from the Haitian border, and 137 miles from Santo Domingo. Las Matas de Farfan, is part of the San Juan Province deep into the Furnia de Catanamatias and surrounded by the Cordillera Central Mountain Range that runs […]
Onyedikachi Nwogu Worcester In July 2020, I was harassed and arrested because of my sexuality for a third time. I was still living in Abia State, Nigeria and it was about 7 or 8 p.m. Normally a driver at my job would bring me home at the end of the day, but that day he […]
Larry Madden Even on the morning of my mother’s funeral, I was trying to find a way out of it. The idea of spending time with a happy, loving family has always interested me. Spending time with mine has not. I had, after all, just spent several hours masked and wrapped in plastic sitting at […]