With the responsibilities of the student leaders of the divestment initiative coming to an end, fourth and fifth form students met recently with current seniors to discuss the future of Choate’s fossil fuel divestment. The leaders, Lucas Ferrer ’17, Zoe Reid ’17, and Anselm Kizza-Besigye ’17, explained to the groupRead More

Last Thursday, Lucas Ferrer ’17, Zoe Reid ’17, and Anselm Kizza-Besigye ’17 presented in front of the Board of Trustees Investment Committee, knowing that no student divestment movements at peer schools have succeeded yet. At their nearly hour-long presentation, the three seniors asked the committee to commit to halt futureRead More

When asked about the motivation for the divestment petition that has garnered hundreds of signatures from the student body, Cecilia Katzenstein ’16 said, “We see a discrepancy between Choate’s statement on sustainability and investing eight to nine percent of our endowment into fossil fuels, which has clearly been proven toRead More