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  1. Adam M. Romero stands at the podium with the Pitzer College logo. A photo of a crop duster appears on the projector screen behind him.
    Events

    Talk Highlights Unsettling Connections Between Toxic Waste and Food

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    For the fall lecture series “Talking Trash,” Pitzer’s Munroe Center for Social Inquiry invites Adam M. Romero to discuss how industrial waste affects agriculture.

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    • Munroe Center for Social Inquiry (MCSI)
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    Student Achievements

    Michelle Muturi ’23 Wins 2023 Napier Award to Improve the Experiences of Kenyan Schoolchildren

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    Alum's idea for recycling discarded plastic to create eco-bricks has been awarded a 2023 Napier Initiative Award

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  3. Student Achievements

    Pitzer Students Preserve a Rare Ecosystem on Campus

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    Two students collaborate with the California Botanic Garden and Pitzer’s Robert Redford Conservancy to preserve the Outback’s rare ecological habitat

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    • Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability
  4. Student Achievements

    Student Diana Vicezar ’24 Joins Other Youth Activists at Global Climate Summit

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  5. In the Media

    The San José Spotlight publishes an op-ed on affordable housing by Charlotte Richards ’25, who wrote the commentary as part of her Pitzer First-Year Seminar Radical Care

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  6. trees in bloom in the foreground of Pitzer College's Bryant Tower against the blue sky featuring wisps of white clouds
    Alumni Achievements

    Devon Hartman ’77 Plans to (Solar) Power the Economy

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    Pitzer College alumnus Devon Hartman ’77 has launched CHERP Solar Works, the world’s first nonprofit solar panel assembly factory, based in Pomona, CA. The project aims to create hundreds of living-wage jobs, provide free solar power to low-income families, and rebuild U.S. solar manufacturing through a national network of community-based micro-factories. Founded by Hartman’s nonprofit CHERP Inc., this initiative unites climate action and economic opportunity, reflecting the lifelong values of activism and sustainability that began at Pitzer College.

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