Student PIRGs

She has been involved in the chapter for the past 3 years working to fight plastic pollution, protect our pollinators, get the UCs to 100% clean energy, and protect both our oldest trees and beautiful oceans. Great work Katharine!

Congrats to Our Student of the Week! Katherine is a 4th-year student at UC Riverside and the Chapter Chair of CALPIRG Students at UCR.

On Monday, we held our annual federal lobby day in DC. Our 23 volunteers from 7 states + DC meet with 43 legislative offices to raise student voices and advocate for a better future - addressing textbook affordability, food waste, wildlife crossings and the right to repair!

So great meeting with @RepYoungKim ’s office to talk about affordable textbooks, the warrior right to repair act, and wildlife crossings! @StudentPIRGs @CALPIRGStudent

Thank you to @RepGaramendi ’s office for meeting with us on affordable textbooks, food date labeling act, and military right to repair!! Also great to meet Taylor who is a fellow Bruin 🧸💙💛 @StudentPIRGs @CALPIRGStudent

Thank you to @RepThompson ’s office for meeting with us on affordable textbooks, military right to repair, and wildlife crossings!! @StudentPIRGs @CALPIRGStudent

We spent the day today in DC lobbying to make textbooks more affordable, reduce food waste, and more! @StudentPIRGs

Thanks to @CoryBooker’s office for meeting with us about efforts to fund #OpenTextbooks and reduce food waste!

This week, Gabe not only got on live radio to discuss our new textbook report, he has also been organizing in Ann Arbor to build support for the our Heated Bus Stop initiative, which is part of a larger public transit campaign. Nice work Gabe!

Congrats to our Student of the Week! Gabe Grossman is a senior Computer Science major at the University of Michigan and the club president for PIRGIM at University of Michigan.

Congrats to our Student of the Week! Anika is a junior at Rutgers New Brunswick & a Media coordinator intern on NJPIRG's Make Textbooks Affordable campaign. This week her chapter held a textbooks report release press event and she got three reporters to attend! Nice work Anika!

📚 @ospirgstudents Textbooks Press Conference covered, read the full report at link in bio kcby.com/news/local/adv…

Great coverage of our latest textbooks report: "College Students in New Jersey are speaking out against the rising cost of textbooks" instagram.com/reels/DUlyf9Rk…

Such a privilege to work with students like Caleb. Great profile in @georgiastateu News. news.gsu.edu/2026/01/21/see…

Congrats to our Student of the Week! Lia is a junior Bioengineering major at the University of Washington. This week during WashPIRG's Save the Bees Week of Action, Lia really stepped up -collecting over 26 signatures in support of the Bees every hour she volunteered! Nice work!

📚Textbooks are still too expensive — and students are paying the price. Students told us these costs force them to skip meals, work extra hours, or even drop classes. It doesn’t have to be this way. 📎Read the full report — studentpirgs.org/2026/02/10/fix…

Congrats to our Students of the Week! Stephanie & Sam are leaders in the WashPIRG Chapter at @UW. During the Volunteer Recruitment Drive, Stephanie and Sam led the way helping to identify 70 new WASHPIRG members for our campaign to Save the Bees! –

Mike has represented MASSPIRG at the state level for the & in DC at our federal lobby day. This week, Mike was tapped to serve on the state’s 13-member Board of Higher Education where he will represent MA CC's & advocate for the Hunger-Free Campus Initiative. Congrats Mike!

Congrats to our Student of the Week! Mike Hannigan is a MASSPIRG student leader at Greenfield Community College & the PIRG national spokesperson for the Hunger & Homelessness campaign.

Congrats to our Student of the Week! Alex is the Protect our Oceans campaign coordinator at UCSB. This week, Alex organized a team to do class announcements, resulting in 3,752 students getting educated about the perils facing our oceans, and what students can do to help! 🌊🪸