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Â鶹ɫÇ鯬 students (left to right) Emily Hadden of Newburgh, N.Y.; Esteban Meza of Montgomery, N.Y.; and Lucian Forte of New Windsor, N.Y. show off their winning designs for the 2026 Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh Walk for Housing

Â鶹ɫÇ鯬 students (left to right) Emily Hadden of Newburgh, N.Y.; Esteban Meza of Montgomery, N.Y.; and Lucian Forte of New Windsor, N.Y. show off their winning designs for the 2026 Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh Walk for Housing T-shirt design contest.

 

A design by Â鶹ɫÇ鯬 student Esteban Meza of Montgomery, N.Y. will be featured on the T-shirts for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh’s upcoming Walk for Housing on Sunday, April 26.

The winning artwork was selected from a competition open to Mount students. Participants in the Walk for Housing will wear the official event T-shirt featuring the winning design as they raise funds to support the local Habitat affiliate’s building projects in the City of Newburgh.

Meza, a junior Game Programming major, took first place. His winning design centered on an image of a key, a symbol deeply associated with the mission of Habitat for Humanity.

Since Meza wasn’t expecting his design selected when he submitted it – he cited stiff competition from his classmates – he was even more excited to snag the win. 

“I’d never really designed a T-shirt before,” Meza explained. “I wasn’t expecting to win at all, but I gave it my best shot and lo and behold, it worked.”

Participants in the 27th annual Walk for Housing can secure a shirt with Meza’s design for contributing $20 or more to the effort. The walk, which starts and ends at the Mount, will kick off at 2 p.m. Participants will follow a route that features a history-filled tour of houses built by Habitat Newburgh. To join, visit to register as an individual or a team.

Mount Graphic Design major Emily Hadden of Newburgh, N.Y. earned second place with a shoe/house hybrid design, and Digital Media Production major Lucian Forte of New Windsor, N.Y. took third with an anthropomorphic house design. 

Hadden, a member of the Mount’s volleyball team, says her design was the result of an intensive creative process involving numerous iterations.

“I made so many revisions – more than I can count,” she explained. “I had one with a key, one with a shoe, and I was like, ‘What if I combined the two of them?’ Like the old lady who lived in a shoe... I just started over from scratch and I fell in love with this idea.”

Forte, a Digital Media Production major who recently interned with Choice Films, says the design was a playful and literal take on the event’s title.

“I made a fun little character,” Forte explained: a house with legs. “The event is walking for housing, so I did a doodle of like a house walking. It’s not my first design, but it looked the best.”

 

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