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lot, I’m already a senior and I have a 2-year-old daughter. I need to start working.’ I didn’t really think that there was a chance I would get to go to grad school.” But after giving the idea a few days’ thought, Sweeney reached out to Juanita Reed, PLU’s director of MBA and undergraduate business programs. They scheduled a 30-minute consultation to discuss Fast Track and what the program could do for Sweeney, and by the end of the meeting her mind was made up. “So I applied, which was very easy

and I applied for the show just for the experience of doing it. I honestly never thought about what it would be like once it aired. How have you enjoyed living abroad? Was it a challenging adjustment for yourself or your children? I love living in Australia. I wish we had moved sooner. The work-life balance is completely in line with our lifestyle. Paul and I have always been up for an adventure and seeking out new life experiences together — we have moved 12 times in the last 10 years between

the company. The internship was so successful, McDaneld was invited to continue the partnership through the end of the year.  How did you come across this internship? I wanted to get into finance to get that financial industry experience, so I applied to a lot of internships, probably 30 plus. On top of that, my econ mentor, Igor Strupinskiy, felt Russell Investments would be a good fit for me because he had worked there previously. His working there had nothing to do with me getting the

school at the moment. The program expanded to Tacoma-Pierce County in 2020, where Pierce-Ngo lives with her six-month-old baby, husband, and two dogs — and where she grew up. “It was exciting to officially expand and offer services here, to create buzz and awareness around the opportunity youth population,” she says. “I was 17 when I applied to PLU, and college is such a big life decision,” she says. “You can’t vote, can’t drink at 17 — but you’re still making such a big life decision.” She hopes to

type of policy work does Senator Dhingra and your office work with? She has a very wide variety of policy that she works with. A lot of her policy work right now has to do with mental and behavioral health, and sponsoring a bill from high school students on banning the pink tax (a term used for gender-based price differences applied to identical products). She’s also working on mental health competency, or forensic competency, so finding ways to improve our criminal justice system for people who

the opportunity to direct university productions. She was finally a director as teacher – exactly what she wanted to be. During her final year at CU she began applying for jobs as a professor. She applied all over the country at several different types of universities. Lori Lee works with student actors as the Director of “How I Learned to Drive.” “I remember thinking how extraordinary it would be if I found such a job in the Northwest, as my entire family lives in Portland,” Wallace says. “When I

reverent care.” Upon noticing this connection, Professor O’Brien applied for and received a Kelmer-Roe grant, with student Collin Ray, to study the connections that she saw between ultrarunning, Dark Green Religion, and concepts like gender, race and class.   Professor O’Brien believes the activity of ultrarunning, the combination of testing the body and returning to outdoors to do it, speaks to a spiritual relationship between runners and nature. “You’re returning to a more primal behavior where

by Dr. Jennifer Smith with students from her International Honors 253: Gender and Sexuality course and women in the Therapeutic Community (TC) at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW). Together they applied theoretical texts to design and execute a long-term project that examines and reflects upon the boundaries and connections between universities & prisons as well as the general population and people who are incarcerated. The Parkland Tour ProjectThe Parkland Tour ProjectDeveloped