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might make more money at another law firm, but this fits my personality and priorities for my life.” Ultimately, Garabedian’s service through ShoeBox Sharing brings her joy. “More than just having a physical item, a blanket shows children that someone else in the world cares about them, even someone they’ve never met,” she says. “Children are the section of the population least able to help themselves.” Read Previous Diversity Center Alumni: Self-care and Healing Read Next Passion for solving

identities they hold. Hernández was born in LA, then grew up in Las Vegas. They first heard about PLU from a best friend’s sister. At a college fair, they learned about PLU’s commitment to equity, justice, and diversity—along with the mission statement that states the importance of care for the earth.  After visiting in the spring, they were sold, enchanted by Washington’s trees and mountains, and PLU’s Red Square and communication program. “It felt like home,” Hernández says.  A few weeks ago, they

really stepped up to support me. I remember that so fondly. Trauma can really affect students, and I want to be able to show the same care and concern to my students as my teachers showed for me.What led you to PLU? My oldest sister attended PLU for a couple of years, so I was familiar with PLU. I did not want to stay in Tacoma when I was first looking for a college, as I am a local student. My high school counselor encouraged me to consider PLU anyway. I told my mom I would attend Lute Overnight but

lives, choose where they go to school or work and have access to water and food. You can’t help but care about hearing people talk about their hopes and dreams after seeing them denied on a first-hand basis. What type of work do you perform as PLU’s Vet Corps Navigator? I help provide our military-affiliated students (veterans, spouses or dependents) with peer-to-peer mentorship. In their transition to academic life, they have different barriers or obstacles than traditional students do. They have a

from physiological to social issues relevant in psychology. It turns out understanding people (psychology) and asking questions (philosophy) are two attributes that make for a successful wealth advisor. In 2008, Bell went to work at Cannataro Family Capital Partners in Manhattan. Today he has a slew of professional licenses in everything from long-term care insurance to retirement income, and has taken courses at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He’s one of four partners in his

public leaders to conserve and protect the water and land resources from pollution and development? And then what about housing for all as a right rather than privilege? Are we training young people in the Puget Sound to conserve and protect this remarkable part of the world? PLU once had a vital commitment to care for the Earth. Will that continue in the future as we face the greatest of social issues: the drastic changing of the climate? Monastic communities looked to the future, not the immediate

that no one grows hungry?  Alcuin LIbrary at Saint John’s University “How do we push public leaders to conserve and protect the water and land resources from pollution and development? And then what about housing for all as a right rather than privilege? Are we training young people in the Puget Sound to conserve and protect this remarkable part of the world? PLU once had a vital commitment to care for the Earth. Will that continue in the future as we face the greatest of social issues: the drastic

, PLU’s Classics program is a flagship for the liberal arts side of PLU’s mission and identity. When I talk to prospective students, I use the Classics as a key example of how we achieve our mission. PLU believes that we can best prepare students for thoughtful inquiry, leadership, service, and care by giving them a sense of the historical foundations from which our current world has come, by teaching them long-tested tools of critical thinking that will help them no matter what work they do and where

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

atmospheres in which to discuss emotionally and academically challenging topics. She notes that, in order to teach about the pain, challenges, and achievements in the topics of her courses, it has been important to confront and discuss the individual pain, challenges and achievements that we are all experiencing during Covid-19. During the pandemic, Professor Urdangarain, like countless others here at PLU, has devoted herself to the care, support and wellbeing of all her students. Tirelessly, she has