Name: Graydon Kirchmann

Social Justice Group: Environment: Microplastics

Date of Fieldwork: December 11, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Lyle Casriel | Bard’s 2022 Disrupt to Sustain Social Impact Pitch Competition Powered by RebelBase | Competition Judge

Type of Fieldwork: Listening in on business pitch

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

We went to Bard’s 2022 Disrupt to Sustain Social Impact Pitch Competition Powered by RebelBase and learned a lot about people’s strategies to make sustainable business ideas that can also get money. It was very interesting because it was made in a way that would benefit everyone because it would be just as easy to use, and would be even more profitable.

This is a very smart idea because environmentally sustainable products should be easy to use or implement, because if the product wasn’t as good as non-sustainable ones, then why would people buy them? This information was very helpful and I will try to integrate it into my work on microplastics and ways for people to want to reduce plastic usage in a way that doesn’t affect them. We learned about a lot of situations where reusable products would be useful as well, like confetti and glitter, because those are both things that can get in the ocean.