Chad Pregracke visits Depauw
Chad Pregracke visited DePauw as part of the FTN event week on Wed, February 4th. Chad’s charismatic personality made his presentation stand out in the week as an event full of humor and fun. He proved that just because you do work that 
matters doesn’t mean you have to take yourself too seriously. Chad doesn’t necessarily view himself as an “environmentalist”, his project to clean up America’s rivers came out of his experience on the river and seeing first hand the kind of trash that has accumulated there over the years. As he said in his presentation, he was simply “sick of seeing it”. At a very young age, Chad set out to do something about it. He improved his way through the logistics of funding his project and starting a non-profit. Now, his organization “Living Lands and Waters” has grown into a large non=profit that incorporated thousands of volunteers from surrounding communities to pull millions of tons of trash out of US rivers. Chad’s uplifting story proves that one person, with a little perseverance and a good attitude, can really make a difference.