LITTLE ROCK — Michael Brown, chief executive officer and co-founder of City Year, a program for 17- to 24-year-olds to give 10 months of full-time community service to their community and country, will speak at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service on Thursday.
The City Year program helped to inspire former President Clinton to create AmeriCorps in 1993. Brown and Alan Khazei cofounded City Year in 1988 with 50 young people in service in Boston. City Year operates coast to coast, including in Little Rock, enlisting more than 1,000 young adults nationwide for full-timecommunity service, civic engagement and leadership development.
Thursday's lecture, scheduled from noon to 1 p.m., is free and open to the public. But the university asks the public to make reservations by e-mailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu or by calling (501) 683-5239.
Attendees may bring their own lunch. Water and soft drinks will be provided.
The speech is at Sturgis Hall, 1200 President Clinton Ave. in Little Rock. Sturgis Hall, part of the Clinton Presidential Center complex, is in the former Choctaw Railway Station.
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