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Access, Affordability, and OutcomesIrvine Foundation Presents Leadership Award to Michele Siqueiros ’95 for Her Educational Access Advocacy
Michele Siqueiros ’95, president of The Campaign for College Opportunity, has received a 2024 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award recognizing her statewide impact on expanding college access. The honor includes a $350,000 grant to support her organization’s advocacy and research efforts.
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- Board of Trustees
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Access, Affordability, and OutcomesHayley Blain-Weinstein ’91 Makes Game Show Dreams Come True
Hayley Blain-Weinstein '91 works as a head contestant producer for the Daytime Emmy Award-winning "The Price Is Right," the longest-running game show in U.S. television history.
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Access, Affordability, and OutcomesBeihua Guo ’21 Unearths L.A. Aqueduct’s Dark History Through Photography
Photographer and Pitzer alum Beihua Guo ’21 has received $5,000 as a finalist for The Aftermath Project’s 1492/1619 American Aftermaths grant.
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Access, Affordability, and Outcomes2024 Pomona-Pitzer Hall of Fame Honors Pitzer Athletes
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- Sagehen Athletics
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Access, Affordability, and OutcomesMichael Griggs ’21, a formerly incarcerated New Resources Program graduate, talks to the Los Angeles Times about a new housing law to help Californians with criminal records
Michael Griggs ’21, a formerly incarcerated New Resources Program graduate, talks to the Los Angeles Times about a new housing law to help Californians with criminal records.
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Access, Affordability, and OutcomesFilmmaker and MOR Fellow Daisy Okazaki ’25 Explores Asian American Identity
Pitzer College student Daisy Okazaki ’25, a media studies major and Asian American studies minor, has received the Margo Okazawa-Rey Fellowship to create a community-rooted film project centered on the experiences of young Southeast Asian women. Partnering with Oakland-based Banteay Srei, Okazaki is producing a short film and accompanying curriculum exploring themes of identity, trauma, healing, and sisterhood. A lifelong storyteller and member of Pitzer’s Pasifika Asian Student Union, Okazaki aims to uplift Asian American communities through film and art.
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- Community Engagement Center (CEC)
- Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies
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Access, Affordability, and OutcomesIncarceration to Reintegration: Kenneth Butler ’22 Helps Pilot Program in Uganda
Two partners Butler chose for his Fulbright were Professor Arthur Sserwanga at the Makerere University Business School and Anatoli Biryomumaisho, who directs education and vocational skills training for the Ugandan prison system.
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Access, Affordability, and OutcomesAfter Two NSF Fellowships, Teo Cooper ’24 Seeks to Balance People and Nature
After studying plants at Harvard this summer, a student recalls the racial justice series that brought them to Pitzer and looks ahead to studying abroad in Southern Africa.
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- Department of Natural Sciences
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Joel Harper ’95 and Marcia J. Withers ’74 Honor Musician Bill Withers and Grandmas Everywhere
Joel Harper ’95 and his company, Freedom Three Publishing, collaborated with the late Bill Withers’ wife, Marcia J. Withers ’74, and illustrator R. Gregory Christie to bring the song “Grandma’s Hands" alive in a picture book of the same name.
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