Clinton School Podcasts

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Helene Gayle, President and CEO of the Chicago Community Trust, a community foundation dedicated to improving the region through strategic grant making, civic engagement, and inspiring philanthropy. Named one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women and one of Non-Profit Times Top 50, Helene has authored numerous articles on global and domestic public health issues, poverty alleviation, gender equality, and social justice.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Alice Driver, a bilingual long form journalist based in Mexico City. Mrs. Driver’s works focuses on migration, human rights, and gender equality. For the past two years, she has covered migration along the United States/Mexico border and throughout Central America, witnessing first-hand how US policies have affected migrants living along the border.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Roderick Hart, former Dean of the Moody College at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of “Civic Hope; How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive” which analyzes over ten thousand letters to the editor from 1948 to the present published in twelve US cities. It states that the vitality of a democracy lies not in its strengths but in its weaknesses, and in the willingness of its people to address those weaknesses.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Susan Ford Bales, daughter of President Gerald R. Ford and Betty Ford, and Lisa McCubbin, award-winning journalist and the author of four New York Times bestselling books. McCubbin is the author of Betty Ford: First Lady, Women’s advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer is an intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First Lady and wife of President Gerald Ford.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Ian Rosenberger, Founder and CEO of Thread International, he founded Team Tassy & Thread in 2010 in the wake of the Haiti Earthquake. Team Tassy unlocks the inherent power in every person to end global poverty. Thread takes trash from poor neighborhoods and turns it into jobs. They work together under the same core philosophy: the biggest problem we face as a species is multidimensional poverty; ending it is entirely possible within our lifetime, and to do it we need to invest in the poor to create as many dignified, sustainable jobs as possible.