Summer 2020 PREVAILING OVER PANDEMIC ALUMNI SHARE STORIES OF LIFE DURING COVID-19 VIRTUAL CLASS DAY THE SHOW DID GO ON! CONGRATS TO THE Columbia CLASS OF 2020 College RACHEL FEINSTEIN ’93 SCENES FROM HER Today FIRST MAJOR MUSEUM RETROSPECTIVE TAKING Alex Loznak ’19 is suing the U.S. government CLIMATE CHANGE for the right to TO COURT a safer planet Contents Columbia College CCT Today VOLUME 47 NUMBER 4 SUMMER 2020 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Alexis Boncy SOA’11 EXECUTIVE EDITOR Lisa Palladino DEPUTY EDITOR 10 14 24 Jill C. Shomer ASSOCIATE EDITOR Anne-Ryan Sirju JRN’09 FORUM EDITOR features Rose Kernochan BC’82 CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 10 Thomas Vinciguerra ’85 ART DIRECTOR Eson Chan Taking Climate Change to Court Alex Loznak ’19 is one of a team of young people suing Published quarterly by the the U.S. government for the right to a safer planet. Columbia College Office of Alumni Affairs and Development By Anne-Ryan Sirju JRN’09 for alumni, students, faculty, parents and friends of Columbia College. CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS 14 AND MARKETING OFFICER Bernice Tsai ’96 “What Has Your Pandemic ADDRESS Experience Been Like?” Columbia College Today Columbia Alumni Center Fourteen alumni tell us how COVID-19 has shaped their lives. 622 W. 113th St., MC 4530, 4th Fl. New York, NY 10025 By the Editors of CCT PHONE 212-851-7852 24 EMAIL
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