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MTV Appoints Pitzer College Alumna Lauren Dolgen ’97 Executive Vice President of Series Development

Claremont, Calif. (May 31, 2013)—Pitzer College alumna Lauren Dolgen ’97 has been promoted to head of West Coast reality programming and executive vice president of series development. In her expanded new position, Dolgen will oversee the strategic creation and development of all of the network’s West Coast-based reality television slate, including oversight of current hits [Read More...]
May 31, 2013
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Pitzer College Alumnus Char Miller ’75 Publishes Book about Water, Immigration and a Sense of Place in the Borderlands

Claremont, Calif. (March 18, 2013)—Pitzer College alumnus Char Miller ’75 has authored On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest, a collection of essays about the American Southwest. With an environmentalist’s eye and a story-teller’s voice, Miller delves into the troubling issues that shape life in the US-Mexico border region. On the Edge [Read More...]
March 18, 2013
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Pitzer College Alumnus Richard McKinney Awarded Social Innovation Fellowship

Claremont, Calif. (January 28, 2013) — Pitzer College alumnus Richard McKinney ’10 won a StartingBloc Fellowship to the New York-based Institute for Social Innovation. The StartingBloc Fellowship program prepares young people committed to social and environmental justice to become global leaders who can address some of today’s most urgent issues. Through the Institute for Social [Read More...]
January 28, 2013
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Pitzer College Alumna Sissy Trinh ’96 Trains Teens to Speak Up to City Hall

Claremont, Calif. (December 7, 2011) — Pitzer College alumna Sissy Trinh ’96 founded the Southeast Asian Community Alliance (SEACA), a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that helps teenagers change their neighborhoods and change their lives. Established in 2002, SEACA’s mission is to “build an empowered Southeast Asian community through leadership development, education, advocacy and community organizing.” [Read More...]
December 7, 2012
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Pitzer College Alumna Susan Celniker ’75 Honored for Pioneering Genetic Research

Claremont, Calif. (December 5, 2012)— Pitzer College alumna Susan Celniker ’75 has been named a 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The peer-awarded honor recognizes distinguished efforts in the scientific and social applications of science. Celniker, who heads the Life Sciences Division’s Department of Genome Dynamics at the Lawrence [Read More...]
December 5, 2012
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Pitzer College Alumnus Todd Eachus Joins Opportunity Finance Network

Claremont, Calif. (November 30, 2012) — Pitzer College alumnus Todd Eachus ’84 has been named the chief external affairs officer of Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a national network of community development financial institutions that provide financial resources to people in low-income communities to help them join the economic mainstream. As OFN’s chief external affairs officer, [Read More...]
November 30, 2012
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Danielle Brown ’08 to Establish Oral History Website for Women of African Descent in South America

Claremont, Calif. (October 25, 2012)—Pitzer College Alumna Danielle Brown ’08 is launching a multimedia oral history website to collect and share audio and video testimonies of women of African descent in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Brown created the initiative, Sos Parte, to establish a forum for this group of women to tell their stories [Read More...]
October 25, 2012