CPS Week: Conscious Consumerism and Media Awareness

This year’s theme for Connections, Pride, and Spirit (CPS) Week was Conscious Consumerism and Media Awareness. All week, a structured series of speakers, workshops, and hands-on activities were led by students, faculty, staff, parents, and community leaders. Collectively, we highlighted our purchasing power as informed consumers and investigated the ways our citizenship is linked to production and consumption. Topics included race in social media algorithms, labor practices in the cocoa industry, traditional Middle Eastern marketplaces, carbon offsets, mending clothing, mindfulness, “girl”ification, mending clothing, deceptive advertising, preserving fruit,big tobacco, microplastics, and imagining the end of capitalism.