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Institute, The National Museum of Women in the Arts and the PLU University Special Collections. The Seattle Art Museum Gallery shows my work locally. Why did you want to teach at PLU? I love teaching in small liberal arts schools, it was near my family, and it felt like a circle that needed to be completed. What is your favorite class to teach and why? Picking a favorite class is like picking your favorite child isn’t it? No one wants to admit they do that… My favorite is probably the Capstone series

, I really love the team,” Klauder said, noting that she is one of six seniors who are wrapping up four-year stints with the swimming program. Five of those seniors are women. “I have some really close friends, and I’m always going to have that,” she said. And she’ll also have the memories of a month spent studying in China. Read Previous Karen Hille Phillips Read Next Prayer Possible COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled

of teams as an assistant coach, and I just got it,” Croft said. “Everything clicked: This is what needs to happen.” And then came another of those life-defining decisions. In 2010, Croft met Tafara Pulse, who is now his wife. “She plays for the Seattle Sounders Women and is in the Seattle University Hall of Fame,” Croft said. “She was my biggest push to get back into it. She really saw how good I was, and I believed her.” Croft works with children in Uganda as part of PlayUp, his former nonprofit

research, as the speaker for Pacific Lutheran University’s 41st Annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, part of PLU’s Spring Spotlight Series, “… and Justice for All?” Jacobs’ presentation at PLU will recount both the trauma and resilience of indigenous women and families as they struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the Indian Child Welfare Act in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies and redress in Australia and Canada. “I first became

alongside 37 other people. Every piece of Florida data that lurches adds to the growing suspicion that this will be a long and uncertain night. I told my team during the car ride to the station that there’s a strong chance Clinton could win the election. The Times’ forecasting tool predicting a President-elect Clinton has fallen from its initial 92 percent to about 77, as of the latest Florida and Ohio returns at 8:48. I know what I plan to write for a Clinton victory — I’ll ask women in the office

working in conflict resolution and on programs empowering women in rural communities.   Speaking of internships, your resume is jam-packed with them. Is there a first internship that stands out to you as representing the beginning of your professional journey? It wasn’t exactly an internship, but actually a really cool volunteer opportunity at Fern Hill Elementary (Tacoma) when I was at PLU. I worked as a Spanish tutor and helped out at the afterschool program there.  After that, I worked on Rep

support and friendship. During a semester abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico, the two often Skyped, with Urdangarain providing feedback and guidance on Benge’s capstone project, an analysis of “indigenous feminine identity production” in the context of a local organization, Protección a la Joven de Oaxaca, A.C., that helps indigenous women pursue formal education in the city.  For Urdangarain, advising Benge has been “an honor.” She describes her former student as the kind “you never forget because of her

internship. In February the offices began promoting the PLU Internship Fund to students. By the end of the semester, PLU was able to support 37 students with their internships. Nearly 38 percent of awardees were students of color and more than 81 percent were women. The majority of internships — more than 85 percent — took place in the South Sound.  Nursing major Erica Palmer ‘21 was able to offset costs as she worked as an intern on an interpretive phenomenological study with the PLU Nursing Department

director the Women of the Red Clay collective. Surla’s class visited Martinez in the Zapotec village of San Marcos Tlapazola, where Martinez shared her story with the PLU students, demonstrated how the red clay is processed, and took the class up to the hills to experience the harvesting of the red clay. Surla and classmate Jessica Herklotz ’23 on a visit to the textile studio of Maria Bautista in Teotitlán del Valle, a Zapotec village known for its textiles and rugs. Students received a cooking