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Social Media & Constant Connection topic at Clinton School this evening

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Social networking is a staple of modern life, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication, identity, and privacy are affecting us more than we realize. Tonight at 6pm at the Clinton School, Jacob Silverman will discuss this in a program entitled “Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection.”

“Terms of Service” crystalizes the current moment in technology and contemplates what is to come: our newly adopted view of daily life through the lens of what’s share-worthy and the surveillance state operated by social media platforms to mine our personal data for advertising revenue.

Integrating politics, sociology, national security, pop culture, and technology, Silverman explores the surprising conformity at the heart of Internet culture, explaining how social media companies engineer their products to encourage shallow engagement and discourage dissent, and reflects on the implications of the collapsed barriers between our private and public lives.

A book signing will follow the discussion.

No Ceilings Full Participation Report is focus of Clinton Center program today

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noceilingsLocal and national leaders will gather at the Clinton Presidential Center to discuss the No Ceilings Full Participation Report, the culmination of a year-long, global data aggregation effort that identifies the significant gains women and girls have made – and the gaps that still remain – since the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.

On March 9, 2015, the No Ceilings Full Participation Report was released at an event in New York City with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and Melinda Gates. On March 30, the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton School of Public Service will host a panel discussion and provide a forum for panelists to localize the data and information gathered in the report.

The event is FREE, but reservations are required. To reserve your seat, email LRevent@clintonfoundation.org.

Panelists will include:

  • Terri McCullough, director of No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project
  • Marcy Doderer, president and chief executive officer of Arkansas Children’s Hospital
  • Scott Shirey, founder and executive director of KIPP Delta Public Schools
  • Beth Keck, senior director of Women’s Economic Empowerment for Walmart
  • Dara Richardson-Heron, chief executive officer of the YWCA
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It will take place in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center.

Doors open at 11:30 a.m; program begins at noon.

Arkansas native, FERC Commissioner – the Honorable Colette Honorable speaks today at Clinton Center

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coletteArkansan Colette Honorable was confirmed as a Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and sworn in earlier this year.  Today at noon at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, she makes her first speech in Arkansas since assuming this new position.

Prior to serving as a FERC Commissioner, she served on the Arkansas Public Service Commission.  From January 2011 until January 2015, she was chair of the PSC.  As Chairman of the Arkansas PSC, Commissioner Honorable oversaw an agency charged with ensuring safe, reliable and affordable retail electric service. She participated in rate case proceedings, plant acquisitions, transmission buildout applications, regional transmission efforts and other transactions to ensure the reliability of the Arkansas grid and diversity in generation in the state. During Commissioner Honorable’s time at the PSC, Arkansas led the South and Southeast in comprehensive energy efficiency programs, and electric rates were consistently among the lowest in the nation.

Her remarks today are entitled “The Clean Power Plan and the Evolving Power Grid.”

FERC is an independent agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil. FERC also reviews proposals to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals and interstate natural gas pipelines as well as licensing hydropower projects.

Honorable is past president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and is known by her peers as a fair, pragmatic, moderate and hardworking leader who is able to build consensus across party lines for common goals. Honorable represented NARUC on an array of issues ranging from pipeline safety to reliability and resilience efforts, and diversity. She testified before Congress on multiple occasions and advocated for infrastructure development to ensure safety and efficiency, increased reliability and resilience efforts, and diversity of energy and the energy workforce.

A native of Arkansas, she is a graduate of the University of Memphis and received a Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law.

Josh Ruxin discusses how creating a restaurant revitalized a community 

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Today at noon at the Clinton School, Josh Ruxin will discuss his book A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope and a Restaurant in Rwanda.

In the book, Ruxin recounts the trials of rebuilding a village from the ashes, then constructing a restaurant from scratch.  He makes the case that entrepreneurship and the private sector are the keys to long-term sustainability in Rwanda. 

Ruxin is assistant clinical professor of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the founder of Health Builders, which improves management systems in 86 health centers across Rwanda and has constructed 5 health facilities serving 150,000 people. 

He is director of the Access Project, Rwanda Works, and the Millennium Villages Project in Rwanda. Dr. Ruxin has extensive experience operating at the intersection of public health, business, and international development. He has led projects in several developing countries and was an advisor to government and private sector leaders on business strategy and economic development. 

Dr. Ruxin was a Truman Scholar at Yale University, where he received his undergraduate degree, and a Marshall Scholar at the University of London. He is currently based in Kigali, Rwanda.

NATIONAL GALLERY film shown tonight through Clinton School/LR Film Festival partnership

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Frederick Wiseman’s “National Gallery” takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. 

The documentary is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film. 

Fred Wiseman is one of today’s greatest living documentary filmmakers. For close to thirty years, he has created an exceptional body of work consisting of thirty full-length films devoted primarily to exploring American institutions.

The film will be shown tonight at the Ron Robinson Theater at 6pm. It is sponsored by the Clinton School for Public Service and the Little Rock Film Festival. 

Politics of Health is Clinton School topic today

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Today at noon at the Clinton School, Michael Sparer looks at “The Politics of Health: From the ACA to ACOs.” 

Michael Sparer studies and writes about the politics of health care, with a particular emphasis on the health insurance and health delivery systems for low-income populations, and the ways in which inter-governmental relations influences policy, both in the U.S. and abroad.

Dr. Sparer’s current projects include a review and analysis of lessons learned from thirty years of Medicaid managed care programs and a comparison of inter-governmental health politics in the U.S. and the UK.

He is also working on a book funded by the RWJ Investigator Program, which examines how American Federalism influenced the politics and substance of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Deciding to Run for President is topic of Clinton School program tonight

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In 2009, then Governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, embarked on a passionate, arduous, nearly two-year journey to make the most difficult decision of his life: whether or not to pursue the presidency of the United States. 

Tonight at 6pm at the Clinton School, Don Cogman, a corporate and governmental affairs executive, shares a story of what it takes to run for President of the United States, the choices a potential candidate faces, and the hard decisions a candidate must make during the process. 

“Run Mitch, Run” offers a compelling, chronological glimpse into Daniels’ quest to make the right decision for not only himself and his family, but also his country. He reveals intriguing, behind-the-scene details as Daniels, with the help of eight devoted individuals, wrestled with the pros and cons of a presidential run. 

Cogman is one of the leaders in the communications industry, with over thirty years of public relations, public affairs, advertising, and consulting experience in New York and Washington D.C.