News

Pomona College Trustee and alumnus Paul Eckstein and his wife, Florence, have pledged $1.2 million to establish a permanently endowed scholarship fund to support refugee students. It will honor Paul’s parents, Liese and Albert Eckstein.

Zachary Freiman '20 is a legislative aide for Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) and his time at Pomona gave him a solid foundation for the job.

Maggie Fick has been the East Africa deputy bureau chief for Reuters since 2017. In November, she will begin a new London-based job at Reuters reporting on the European pharmaceuticals industry on the global health and pharma team.

Saahil Desai ’16 joined the staff of The Atlantic in 2018, where he is a senior associate editor and covers politics and policy. Before The Atlantic, he was a digital editor at The Washington Monthly.

Leah Donnella ’13  is an editor with the NPR Code Switch team. She joined NPR in 2015. She created “Ask Code Switch” in which team members answer listener questions about race, culture and identity in everyday experience.

Hugo Martín ’87 is a business writer who covers the travel industries, including airlines and theme parks, for the Los Angeles Times. He was part of the Metro staff that won three Pulitzer Prizes.

The PAYS program gives rising 10^th through 12^th graders from groups underrepresented in higher education a full-immersion experience at Pomona College over three summers, fully free of charge. 

Pomona College announces the election of three alumni to be members of its Board of Trustees. They are John Gingrich '91, Wei Hopeman '92 and Jim Valone '85.

Now that it’s summertime, are you seeking some good reads? Here are ten of the many books published by Pomona College alumni and faculty members in the last year for your reading pleasure.

Isaac Cui '20 will embark on his latest academic adventure: entering the J.D. program at Stanford Law as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.