Jim Thorpe man graduates from Penn State

Bronson Ford of Jim Thorpe recently graduated from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus. He earned a Bachelor of Science in economics and a Bachelor of Arts in history. Bronson graduated from Jim Thorpe Area High School in 2013.

He served as a peer educator for the Student Financial Education Center and as editor-in-chief of the Economics Association’s newspaper, The Optimal Bundle. He also interned with the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection and worked as a resident assistant in a freshmen dorm.

Bronson researched the Civil Rights Movement and interviewed NAACP chairman Julian Bond at the Southern Poverty Law Center, studied the Holocaust at the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum in Poland, and co-authored an academic research paper on financial literacy with a business librarian.

He is now pursuing a career as a financial industry regulator. Currently Bronson is working in the compliance department at Dutch agricultural bank Rabobank in New York City, where he enforces the bank’s anti-insider trading and anti-market abuse policies. He plans to later pursue a law degree.

He is the son of Dee Ford Reitz and stepson of Mark Reitz of Jim Thorpe, and grandson of Sallie and the late Kermit Klotz of Walnutport.