Calder Hollond

Summer Research: Finding Funding and Free Meals

Posted on January 8, 2020September 21, 2022 by Calder Hollond

By Calder Hollond ‘21 One of the most daunting aspects of a typical school year at Pomona can be weaving a summer internship search into an already busy schedule of classes, on-campus jobs, studying, and other extracurriculars. Many students at Pomona get some sort of summer internship, whether it’s part-time or full-time, at home or in a different city, paid or unpaid. Thes...

Combining Queer Theory and Pipetting Bacterial Cultures

Posted on November 20, 2019September 21, 2022 by Calder Hollond

My summer internship with Planned Parenthood Great Plains, working in the reproductive justice sector

By Calder Hollond ‘21 When I came to Pomona, I thought I was going to be an English major. That’s what I had told all my family and friends before I left home, what I told all my new friends at Pomona during the initial “What are you planning on majoring in?” small talk, and what I made sure to enroll in during course registration. What I hadn’t planned on was that after the...

Small-Town Roots and the Whirlwind of Disaster

Posted on July 9, 2019September 21, 2022 by Calder Hollond

By Calder Hollond ‘21 When I was a young child, my mom taught me my address, one of the first pieces of information I ever memorized. If you put this address into a GPS, it would lead you to an old farmstead in the countryside in Linwood, Kansas, on a sprawling 40 acres of fields where I spent my childhood roaming around. Linwood itself is a small town of 400 people, and sur...