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Pivot Receives Idea Award

Pivot Product Image - Design Ignites Chane Award WinnerCongratulations to the second-year graduate students in the Design Division whose project was announced as the winner of this year’s Design Ignites Change Idea Award on 08 February 2013. Known as Pivot, the project was created as a way to discretely empower victims of human trafficking. The design team included Mike Fretto, Kari Gaynor, Josh Nelson, Adriel Rollins, and Melanie Wang; they worked under the guidance of Assistant Professor Tad Hirsch. Read more about Pivot on the Public Practice Studio website.

The Pivot Project is featured in the April 2013 issue of Arts & Sciences Perspectives. Read the article online.