Steve Zimmerman

Dad, UWM grad, designer for ACBJ, proud alum of the Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Oregonian; eternal South Sider, two-time Floridian, coffee enthusiast.

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

2020 has been quite an anniversary year for @Intelligentsia with COVID-19 disrupting all phases of coffee culture. It’s overshadowed the roaster’s emerging role as incubator for the specialty industry. My story in the @chicagotribune
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https://t.co/fvgVMyiOXP

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

@SarahLongwell25 @jonstewart That was about the best dang thing I saw yesterday, and I’ve watched it 3x. So glad you found time for that moment

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

@unfiltereddad Our white sox house couldn’t agree more. Prior was deeeeeaaaaling

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

@NailaJeanMeyers @APSE_sportmedia Welcome, to the mitten!

[Chris Murphy @SeeMurphsTweets]

Mike Ditka was and will always be the Chicago Bears. He could carry the City of Broad Shoulders on his back.

A man of many titles, but in Chicago, his first name was Coach.

Tomorrow's Chicago Tribune front page:

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

@ScottStrazzante We’re on our way friend

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@Russ_Dorsey1 That’s how we do it 😁

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

@nickdk Bravo

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

About a year ago, a Princeton student named Kyler Zhou was sitting in traffic in New Jersey. At some point he was so bored that he put on a podcast with… me 🙃

It was my usual talk about the talent crisis. About the smartest kids of a generation going to work for McKinsey and Goldman Sachs, while the biggest problems in the world go unsolved, blablabla, you may have heard it by now ;)

What’s interesting is what happened next. As soon as Kyler got home, he emailed me and The School for Moral Ambition (the organization we started to get talented people working on the world's biggest problems).

Kyler wanted to bring this to Princeton.

Well, we told him no 😅. We had just launched our first university fellowship at Harvard, and there was no capacity for a second campus...

Kyler decided to ignore us. Three days into the semester, he launched the first* Moral Ambition Chapter at a university in the United States. In just a few days, more than 120 Princeton students signed up. In November of last year I visited, and the energy was simply AMAZING.

Since then, everything has been escalating. Students have started Moral Ambition Chapters at Brown, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Georgetown and 5 other campuses – often before we've heard of them.

Which brings me to today. After the launch of our Harvard Fellowship (8% of ALL Harvard juniors applied to the first cohort!), we're now also launching Moral Ambition Fellowships at Princeton, Brown, Vanderbilt and Stanford. The program is simple: twelve super talented students per campus, a $15,000 stipend, and a summer working full-time on the most important causes of our time, like lead poisoning or child poverty or ending factory farming or AI safety etc. – instead of polishing a boring corporate pitch deck.

It's just incredible to see how quickly this movement is growing. Every year, thousands of brilliant graduates are funneled into corporate careers that add little to the world. More and more of them are starting to walk the other way.

(For students: applications for Harvard, Princeton, Brown and Vanderbilt are open now. Stanford opens October 6. https://t.co/3dM17vtNbC)

* Brown University claims that they were actually the first – I've decided to stay neutral in this quarrel 😅

[Paul Barrett @paulbarrett6]

JOB ALERT: The Seattle Times is seeking a Sports Multiplatform Editor. Apply here: https://t.co/mghbzm0ihE
@APSE_sportmedia @NABJSports @AAJAsports @NAHJ @AWSM_SportMedia @SJdotcom @nlgja @aaja @NABJ @najournalists @MurrowCollege @UWComm

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

@adameargle Needed. Thank you sir

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

@SeeMurphsTweets Loved that team, it was a sign of things to come in 05

[Chris Murphy @SeeMurphsTweets]

Tomorrow's Chicago Tribune featuring the Bears overtime loss to the Rams. Season comes to an end for the monsters of the miracle.

[MoraineValleyAthletics @MVCyclones]

A fun night full of awards, recognition, games and the love of sports. This first Cyclones Fall Athletics banquet was a success! Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate! #soccer #crosscountry #golf #tennis #volleyball #GoCyclones #mvcyclones

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

@richboudet @bcondotta Love that you did it yourself, bravo bud

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

My favorite tweet, ever.

@EVHSAthletics @SouthtownSports @EaglesAthletics

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

My favorite tweet, ever.

@EVHSAthletics @SouthtownSports @EaglesAthletics

[MoraineValleyAthletics @MVCyclones]

After all the excitement for Cyclones #crosscountry at NATIONALS, freshman Eva Zimmerman was named NJCAA Coaches Association All-American, which goes to the top 15% of finishers at the Big Dance. She finished 39th out of 321 runners! #Congrats #proud #GoCyclones #mvcyclones

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

That’s a @EaglesAthletics grad and @EVHSAthletics alum leading the charge 😁

[MoraineValleyAthletics @MVCyclones]

CHAMPIONS X2!!!
For the first time in Cyclones history, the men's & women's #crosscountry teams won an NJCAA Region 4 Championship the same year!
Eva Zimmerman also became the 1st female or male Cyclone to win individual champion since 1989! #SoManyChamps #GoCyclones #mvcyclones

[MoraineValleyAthletics @MVCyclones]

Just some speedy times from both our REGION CHAMPIONSHIP #crosscountry @MoraineValleyXC teams this weekend (men-8K; women-5K). And you know what this means as champs…we’re ALL going to NATIONALS on Nov. 8! #TheBigDance #HereWeComeIowa #GoCyclones #mvcyclones

[MoraineValleyAthletics @MVCyclones]

Just gonna leave these right here…#crosscountry #champs #GoCyclones #mvcyclones

[Steve Zimmerman @badgerzip2002]

History at Settler’s Hill! so proud of all of them, especially E 😁

[MoraineValleyAthletics @MVCyclones]

CHAMPIONS X2!!!
For the first time in Cyclones history, the men's & women's #crosscountry teams won an NJCAA Region 4 Championship the same year!
Eva Zimmerman also became the 1st female or male Cyclone to win individual champion since 1989! #SoManyChamps #GoCyclones #mvcyclones