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, communities, and organizations. If you are excited about tackling some of today’s major social challenges and enjoy working with people, then social work may be just the career for you!Reyes dedicated herself to the study of social work, and the PLU program’s blend of social justice, egalitarianism, pluralism and compassion for the oppressed resonated with her. Inspired by her personal experience, Reyes spent her senior year immersed in a research-intensive capstone project that examined the correlation

comparative dimension. My attitude and practice changed dramatically, however, in 2005 when, out of the blue, the Ministry of the Attorney General, Ontario, Canada, hired me as a legal consultant, in the case of Marchand v. Ontario in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. I was asked to research and write an affidavit on the history of adoption legislation, focusing on secrecy and disclosure in Ontario’s adoption records, and placing Ontario’s experience in a wider context. In practice, this meant

study together under a PLU professor, they knew they’d get consistent language development and a community of students with shared educational and cultural experiences. Williams is clear to point out that the program is designed to create educated, informed, experienced students who seek to work and serve in communities at home and throughout the world. “You can’t do social justice work unless you know where you are doing it,” she said. “We ask our students to listen to the community and judge for

then because time has tempered the experience,” he said. “It would be different now. I don’t think I could do it justice today, if I had to write it from scratch.” The outcome of his writing hasn’t stopped in the pages of publications or in the broadcasts of the re-telling. It wasn’t long after his stories were known that the military tapped him to explore what troops were really experiencing. Too often the well-trained men and women of the armed services would let the horrors of war slip to the

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

Student Life representatives: Nicole Juliano, Assistant Director of the Diversity Center, juliannh@plu.edu Jen Rude, University Pastor, rudejl@plu.edu Angie Hambrick, Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability, hambriaz@plu.edu The Counseling Center, counseling@plu.edu or (253) 535-7206 The Undocumented Student Taskforce will have a schedule of educational opportunities for staff, faculty, and students available later in September. We are proud to work with and for