Luba Bartnitskaia ’10 Admission Fellow
Luba was born in Novosibirsk, Russia, and moved to the United States when she was six years old. Her hometown is Anchorage, Alaska, where she attended South Anchorage High School. Luba majors in Economics and Russian, and is minoring in French. She studied abroad in Nantes, France the second semester her junior year. Luba has been a first-year mentor for three years and she enjoys getting to know the incoming students. Her sophomore year, Luba was treasurer for Pitzer’s Student Senate and volunteered for School On Wheels, an organization that tutors kids in homeless shelters. She has also volunteered with children living in women’s shelters for the last two years. Her freshman year, Luba played volleyball for Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens. In her free time, Luba enjoys photography and running.

Josh Brown ’10, Admission Fellow
Josh was born in Los Angeles California, and graduated from the Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies. He is pursuing a double major in History and Spanish. During the fall semester of his junior year, Josh studied abroad in Ecuador. Josh has served as a member of Pitzer Activities Committee, an organization that plans student social events, for three years. During his junior year, he constructed a work study student dining hall program to allow students to work as part-time employees. As the first student dining hall employee in 15 years, he hopes to expand student work study involvement to the housekeeping and facilities departments. He plans to pursue a career in Admissions following graduation. In his free time, Josh enjoys running, playing guitar, and listening to punk rock music.

Tim Campos ’10 Admission Fellow
Tim was born in Riverside, California and raised just a few blocks away from Pitzer in Claremont. He graduated from Claremont High School and is a double major in Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies, with a minor in Studio Art. Tim is a Fabian Nunez and Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Scholar. In addition to his job as a fellow in the Office of Admission, Tim served as a Diversity Intern, Latina/o Student Union President, a Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Sponsor for incoming first-years, and in Student Senate on various committees, including Junior Class Representative. Tim had the opportunity to help with the 2008 presidential election and Obama campaign. During the summer of 2009, Tim studied abroad on Pitzer’s Summer Health program in Costa Rica. For hobbies, Tim enjoys any medium of art, collecting hats, checking out shows in the LA music scene, and a cultural appreciation for calaveras (skulls). After graduation, Tim plans to continue his passion working in higher education and pursue a dual degree program and work in the field of higher education and administration.

Megan Dooley ’10 Admission Fellow
Megan grew up Chino Hills, Californa and graduated from Ayala High School. She spent the summers after her freshman and sophomore year traveling, studying, and assisting with research in Botswana with Professor Mita Banerjee as part of Pitzer’s Global Local program. During the fall of her junior year she studied abroad in Nepal, and would love to return to there someday.  After changing her major three times, she is starting her senior year with an Environmental Studies major and a minor in Anthropology (and yes, she will graduate on time). Megan has been involved with Jumpstart, has been a mentor to freshmen, coordinated overnight visits for the Office of Admission, organized trips Orientation Adventure (OA pre-orientation trips), and has participated in Student Senate. This year she is excited to be an Admission Fellow and is proud of being Senior Class Representative. In her free time she enjoys dancing, yoga, lying on the mounds, reading, eating good meals, and spending quality time with her friends.

Solomon Estin ’10 Admission Fellow
Sol was born in Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil of a Brazilian mother and an American father, but spent most of his childhood in the small mountain town of Ashland, Oregon. He attended Ashland High School, where he enjoyed snowboarding and diplomacy debate as a Model United Nations delegate, two activities he still pursues. During his time at Pitzer, Sol has explored dozens of extracurricular opportunities including participating in the Black Student Union, managing the Grove House kitchen, participating on the 5C Model European Union team, serving as a student representative on the Political Studies field group, and enjoying ski trips with the 5C outdoor club, On The Loose. A Political Economy major and a Latin American Studies minor, Sol is passionate about examining the intersections of economics, international relations, and public policy. To sharpen his proficiency in Spanish and to deepen his understanding of Latin America, Sol studied abroad with Pitzer’s Sociology of Public Health summer program in Costa Rica. In order to learn more about the American political process, Sol spent the summer of 2009 in Washington, DC working as a campaign fundraiser on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and the League of Conservation Voters, a pro-environment lobby. This year, Sol is thrilled to advance Pitzer’s commitment to intercultural understanding by serving as the head delegate of Pitzer’s Model United Nations team. Sol hopes to continue his adventures abroad, learn at least two more languages, and earn a Masters in International Affairs.

Misa Kabashima ’10, Admission Fellow
Misa was born and raised in Los Angeles but moved to Tustin, in Orange County, California, when she was fifteen and graduated from Foothill High School. She is an art history major and French minor. Her junior year, Misa studied abroad in Paris, France during the fall and in Chiang Mai, Thailand during the spring on a Pitzer Exchange program. Misa is an active member of PAct (Pitzer Activities), AASP (Asian American Sponsor Program) and has served on several Student Senate committees since her freshmen year. In her free time, Misa can be found reading Harry Potter books, watching Harry Potter movies, and taking part in Harry Potter discussions. Aside from Harry Potter, Misa is also an active museum goer and enjoys baking, traveling, shopping, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Jane Austen, pop culture trivia, and the beach. Post-Pitzer, Misa hopes to be gallivanting the world by teaching English abroad. 

Malcolm Miller ’10, Admission Fellow
Don’t be fooled by the surfer look; Malcolm Miller is originally from Washington, D.C. but has certainly converted to a California way of life. Back East, he attended Woodrow Wilson Senior High, a large public school in the heart of the city. Here at Pitzer, 2,600 miles from the Capitol building, he has declared Political Studies as his major with a concentration in American and urban politics. During the summer before his junior year, Malcolm studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, teaching English and volunteering at a community resource center. Malcolm is the president of the Claremont Shades, a coed a cappella group at the 5-Cs, and a member of the Pomona College Choir. He has worked in the Office of Admission as a tour guide, overnight visit coordinator, and now as an Admission Fellow. As an active member of Pitzer Outdoor Adventures, Malcolm helped lead a pre-orientation backpacking trip for first-year students. In his free time Malcolm loves hanging out on the mounds or in the Grove House, spontaneous trips to the beach or mountains, and sailing. 

Joahna Ruffin ’10 Admission Fellow
Joahna is from the Pasadena/ Altadena area. She has a self-designed major in the performing arts that encompasses classical music, theater and dance. While at Pitzer, she has been part of Midnight Echo, Rare Diamonds, and PASA. Joahna has also been an Ujima mentor for the past 3 years.  Joahna was cast in the 2008 performance of Zoot Suit and The Dragon in the fall of 2008. In spring 2009 she studied in Italy with the Pitzer in Parma program. Because of Joahna’s love for God's people, she has traveled to Uganda and South Africa as a missionary, building classrooms and coordinating a workshop to enlighten the women of South Africa about the importance of exercise and healthy eating habits.  In addition to her passion for the performing arts, Joahna has a huge heart for animals of all kinds; maybe this is why she has six dogs! If she isn’t in a recital or acting on stage, in her spare time you can find Joahna exercising, taking in the sunshine, reading, dancing around campus or creating things.

Suhail Shaikh ’10 Admission Fellow
Suhail was born in Lincoln, Nebraska but moved to the San Francisco Bay area when he was four. He graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto. At Pitzer he is a Psychology major and Linguistics minor and has been a part of the Asian American Sponsor program, interned with CCCSI (California Center for Cultural and Social Issues), has been an intramural sports champion, and worked for the Office of Admission for two years as an office assistant and tour guide. He currently plays on the men’s 5-college club volleyball team and is an avid dancer at the annual South Asian culture show. In the spring of his junior year he studied abroad in Antofagasta, Chile on a Pitzer exchange. He hopes to return to Chile post-graduation on a research grant, as well as pursue a career in Clinical Psychology. He spends his free time playing sports and hanging out with friends.

Jenna Stern ’10 Admission Fellow
Jenna was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended Germantown Friends School for 14+ years (pre-K through senior year) but did spend a high school semester, her favorite, at the Mountain School of Milton Academy. Here at Pitzer she is an Environmental Analysis major and an Economics minor. She commutes down to San Diego once a week for an internship at the US Green Building Council. Jenna is on the senior events planning committee and enjoys taking a Pitzer Outdoor Adventures trip once in a while. You’ll also find her encouraging her classmates to hang-dry laundry and turn off the lights. Instead of going abroad, she spent the second semester of her sophomore year doing a series of agriculture-related internships starting in Montana, and ending up in New York. She plans to one day open a restaurant, Spudnik's, that serves all different preparations of potatoes that you can dig up yourself if you so desire. Let her know if you are an interested investor!

Sean Sullivan ’10 Admission Fellow
Sean was born and raised just outside of Glacier National park in Kalispell Montana. He is a double major in Political Studies and International Intercultural Studies. Sean studied abroad in India, carrying out Sociology research with a Pitzer professor, and in China where he studied Mandarin and the environmental situation in Beijing. Before coming to Pitzer Sean was an exchange student in Paraguay and spent a gap year volunteering in South America. Sean is a member of POA, Pitzer Outdoor Adventures, and this year led a pre-orientation backpacking trip for first-year students to Golden Trout Wilderness, just outside Sequoia National Park.  In addition to POA, Sean is involved with Student Senate, the student newspaper, and works as a writing tutor for Pitzer students.  Sean has also worked in the Office of Admission as a tour guide for the last two years. In his free time Sean enjoys exploring the mountains and deserts of Southern California.

Christine Zarker Primomo ‘10 Admission Fellow
Christine was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, where she graduated from Seattle Academy. Majoring in Science, Technology, and Society with a minor in Environmental Studies, Christine hopes to work with communities under water stress to establish sustainable and safe access to water resources. Christine spent the spring semester of her junior year on a Pitzer exchange in Morocco. For the past two years, she has worked in the Office of Admission as a tour guide and an Overnight Visit Coordinator. As a sophomore, Christine was a first-year mentor, organizing events and midnight In-n-Out trips for her mentees. She has volunteered with Harvey Mudd’s Science Bus program since her first-year, travelling to local elementary schools once a week to with hands-on science lessons. On campus, she is involved with the Student Activities Committee and Pitzers student-run speaker series Dining with Democracy. Christine enjoys spending her time cooking, travelling, reading, gardening, hiking, biking, or with friends on Pitzer Outdoor Adventure trips.