Christine Margiotta ’00, whose career has focused on homelessness, education, economic justice, racial equity, and LGBTQ+ rights, spoke with Zócalo Public Square about her recent run for Claremont City Council. Margiotta credited her Scripps professors for influencing her outlook on the world. “It did such a powerful job of deconstructing so many of the things that I had assumed were just the way things are,” she said of her Core I class. “It was a political awakening for me, and an opportunity to see the world through very different eyes.”