Student Experience
Investing in Our Future: Experiential Learning with Alameda County
Investing in Our Future: Experiential Learning with Alameda County By Sarah Lerhaupt It’s always a tense moment in class when students are preparing to select their Experiential Learning (EL) partners – a relationship that will define the semester. Each EL Partner comes to PGS with a sustainable management challenge that staff connects with course content. …
PGS Environmental Defense Fund Fellowships - Summer 2017 Recap
This summer, four Presidio Graduate School students embarked on a mission to drive energy and sustainability change in organizations across the country. Alex Grande, Anuraag Jhawar, Doug Perry, and Robert Bartolucci all served as fellows in Environmental Defense Fund’s prestigious EDF Climate Corps fellowship program. While their experiences differed in size and scope, they intersected …
PGS Alumna Spotlight: Megan Morrice - Impact Investing
Megan Morrice, C20 Leading Client and Partnership Development at HIP Investor HIP Investor is a global leader in impact investing, Megan has experienced firsthand the positive impact that companies have when investing where their mission lies. Megan’s experience includes working as a Financial Advisor for MetLife, a financial-services and insurance wholesaler for Leisure, Werden & …
Doing Good Looks Good at the First PGS Clothing Swap
In step with Earth Day and Fashion Revolution Week, a week-long campaign calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry and commemorating the Rana Plaz factory collapse, where 1,138 people were killed and many more injured on April 24, 2013, the Sustainable Fashion Club hosted a clothing swap during San Francisco campus’s 4th …
Sustainable Fashion Club and Goodwill Hunting Join Forces
By Melissa Hook Did you know… It takes 700 gallons of water to produce a single t-shirt. 200 million promotional t-shirts are made every year. 150 billion total gallons of water are lost per year — or the equivalent of draining the Lake Union every two weeks. Goodwill Hunting is the brainchild of Dave Bergart, Amy …
ISC Partners with Bona Fide in Nicaragua
Trip Photo Gallery SERIES BY: Alex Grande C23, Robert Bartolucci C23, Remi Mateo P7, Christina Johnson C21, and Erin Moore C25/PA8 Part One: ISC Partners with Bona Fide in Nicaragua By Robert Bartolucci (C23) It’s a new year, which means a new destination for the International Sustainability Club at Presidio Graduate School. Following last year’s trip to …
Seattle Students Visit Manufacturing Facilities
During the final fall residency weekend, first-year Presidio Graduate School students from the Seattle campus spent a whole day touring local manufacturing facilities to see the principles of operation they have been studying in action. The organizations we visited included Watson Furniture – maker of custom and catalog office workstations; Sage – maker of high-end …
Flash Mob Takes The Gold at First “Pitch In” Event
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Presidian Power at the Women's March
I am lucky to be a Presidian, part of a community that is willing to come together and stand for each other. This community holds businesses and our government accountable to our shared values. The Women’s March and upcoming protests are our chance to show our leadership and educate others to create a more just, …
IslandWood Reflections
Two Cultures, One School: IslandWood Reflections San Francisco Student Representatives Visit IslandWood on Bainbridge Island: November 3-6, 2016 Avi Kruley and Erin McNichol, had the chance to visit PGS Seattle during the November intensive. As we continue the process of joining our campuses and bringing together the best of what both have to offer, the Reps were able to experience first-hand …