In the latest and last entry of her column, Ila Assegaf profiles Miriam Akhmetshin SC ’26, an art history and economics major who recently completed training to be a doula.
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Claremont Characters: Simon Leonard is a fun guy who loves fungi
Simon Leonard PO ’29 is six foot eight, learning Indonesian and fascinated with fungi. For the latest edition of “Claremont Characters,” Ila Assegaf PO ’28 profiles Leonard.
Claremont Characters: Zoe Dorado’s cultures of probiotics and poetry
This week on Claremont Characters, Ila Assegaf PO ’28 spotlights Zoe Dorado PO ’27. An English and politics major, her interests include the teen writing industrial complex, the indie man epidemic and bell hooks eating Greek yogurt.
Claremont Characters: Micronutritively yours, JaQ Lai
JaQ Lai PO ’26 is the first subject of Claremont Characters, a new column on the interesting and esoteric characters that populate the 5Cs.
Claremont Mosaic: Monique Saigal-Escudero: How her grandmother’s courageous act saved her from the Nazis
Born in Paris, France in 1938, Monique Saigal-Escudero is an Emerita Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College. At just three years old, during the peak of Hitler’s reign in Europe, her grandmother threw her on a train headed for a small city in Southwestern France: an act that ultimately saved her life. Her passion for storytelling would soon bring her back to this history, and once again place her grandmother’s courageousness front and center in her life.
Border Art beyond violence: Corina Silverstein’s artistic summer research
Corina Silverstein SC ’25 spent the summer working for the El Paso Museum of Art and helping the curatorial staff design an exhibit on Latinx womanhood depicted in art.
Beyond the dining hall: Get to know three members of Pomona’s staff
In light of the recent rally to support the Pomona College dining hall workers, TSL sat down with three members of the staff to learn about their lives beyond the meals they cook in Claremont. Here are three of those people to know.
Buzzing with excitement: Sofia Dartnell PO ’22 awarded esteemed Gates Cambridge scholarship
Sofia Dartnell PO ’22 has always had a bee in her bonnet about studying insects. After graduation, she’ll take her passion for pollinators across the pond thanks to the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which provides a full-cost scholarship to the University of Cambridge.
Ski you on the mountain: LINES spreads love for winter sports to everyone
LINES, the 5C’s ski and snowboard club, is bringing snow to students’ sunny semesters, growing a winter sports community and providing trips to Big Bear and Mammoth Mountain.