Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Robert Gibbs, one of the foremost urban retail planners in America. For the past 25 years, Gibbs, a recognized leader in New Urbanism, 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.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Lynn Stout, A distinguished professor of corporate and business law at Cornell University Law School. An internationally recognized expert in corporate governance, securities regulation, financial derivatives, law and economics and moral behavior she discusses her book, “The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations and the Public.”

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Ray Krone, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in Arizona in 1992. He spent 10 years in prison, including time on death row, before new DNA evidence led to his exoneration in 2002. He now travels the country raising awareness about wrongful conviction and speaking out against capital punishment.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with David Williams, president and CEO of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which grants wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Prior to joining the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Williams spent a 10-year career with Habitat for Humanity International, rising to executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization. Griffin previously served as president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and was the leading strategist behind the lawsuit that originally overturned Proposition 8, which barred same-sex couples from marrying in the state.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Karen Korematsu, co-founder of the Fred Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights, which is named for her father who spent 40 years fighting his 1942 arrest for refusing to be incarcerated in the government’s WWII internment camps for Japanese Americans. Founded in 2009 on the 25th anniversary of the vacated conviction, the Korematsu Institute advances pan-ethnic civil rights and human rights through education.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Brian Fagan, Professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and New York Times best-selling author. Fagan, an archaeological generalist with expertise in the broad issues of human prehistory, is the author of "Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind," which examines the history of water spanning a period from about 10,000 years ago up to the Industrial Revolution, when people began deep pumping from subterranean aquifers, using fossil fuels.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Puplic Programs, sat down with Okello Sam, a former child soldier in Uganda, who purchased land in 1998 in an area safe from the country’s brutal civil war and started Hope North, a large rural campus for refugees, orphans and former soldiers. 15 years later, Hope North has evolved into an accredited secondary school with an international arts center, vocational training and a working farm.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs sat down with Amy Binder, a professor of sociology and acting provost at the Thurgood Marshall College at the University of California, San Diego. She is the co-author of “Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives,” which looks at how today’s right-leaning college students experience life on two anonymous university campuses — one an elite private institution, the other a major public university — and how they belong to a web of conservative organizations that provide considerable resources to them.

Nikolai DiPippa, Clinton School Director of Public Programs, sat down with Salamishah Tillet, co-founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc., the only organization in the country that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to end violence against women and girls. Through national and local programs, multimedia performances, summer and afterschool youth institutes, campus trainings and workshops, ALWH has educated over 100,000 survivors and their allies to build safe communities and end gender violence.