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’76, far left, poses with Nichelle Nichols – who played Lt. Ohura in Star Trek — after a ride on the Advance Cab 747 simulator and a group of her office colleagues and their children on NASA Family Day. Santa Cruz to work for NASA and has been there for close to 20 years. She said the thing that set her apart was her experience working as a therapist for six years after graduate school. This background made her a prime candidate for the human resources department of NASA, which is where she got
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minister, would eventual become an advocate for civil rights, but much of his extended family saw Zellner as a traitor to his race. He recalled that before one march near his hometown in Mobile, Ala., his mother called and warned him not to go. His grandfather had threatened to shoot him if he saw him. Zellner’s journey into the civil rights movement began as a sociology student at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala. As an assignment, he and his fellow students were asked to solve the race problem
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was such a young child when he first left southern Sudan for Ethiopia. But the memories endure. On the journey to Ethiopia and then to Kenya, it was all too common to see other refugees stop on the side of the dirt road and look down at a person lying on the ground. They would give words of encouragement to a still form that every passing moment seemed more lifeless. They would console each other at the loss of a person who had become family. But staying put wasn’t an option. “There was a sense of
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with a host family to develop relationships within the community and receive training,” Chell said. For the first three months, the Corps gauges their aptitude in specific tasks before assigning the volunteers to a particular region in Guinea. When applying for a Peace Corps position, an applicant has the option to serve in a specific region or be placed by the Peace Corps. Wentz, Chell and Bridgewater all opted for random placement. "The program provided helpful direction during my application
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carpenter of all things, and he didn’t preach, he said ‘this is what the Christian faith is.’” Blagg’s Christianity classes inspired her to take a fresh look at religion as a whole. She eventually returned to Catholicism years after her family stopped attending church. “Those two classes got me thinking more than anything else that I took,” Blagg said. After she graduated with her bachelor’s degree, Blagg’s graduate studies at PLU focused on how companies approach conflict resolution with their
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her role at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, where, as co-manager, she oversees the foundation’s day-to-day operations and is responsible for development of new philanthropic initiatives. Prior to joining the Vulcan team in 2013, Ives was the founder and president of Milepost Consulting, where she led executive engagement, strategy development and team-empowerment efforts with clients across multiple sectors. Her work resulted in development of organizations such as the Green Sports Alliance
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who come from marginalized populationsChavez, chair and associate professor of politics and government, identifies as Latina. She’s a native Spanish speaker who didn’t learn English before beginning school. She was raised in an immigrant household in the Southwest and experienced many of the obstacles fellow Latinos face every day in the U.S. Like many who come from a similar background, Chavez was the first in her family to graduate from college, despite the barriers she faced. She came from a
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Kathy Richardson, graduate nursing program director in the School of Nursing. “The goal is to improve access to care for rural and underserved populations.” Graduates of PLU’s doctoral program help fill a pressing need for more primary-care providers in Washington, where shortages are particularly acute in rural areas. Graduates are trained to work as family-care nurse practitioners or as nurse practitioners providing mental-health care — both fields suffering from a shortage of providers. The HRSA
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preserving documents relating to the forced relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II — she typed every name and every family number to ensure the information related to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center (1944) was discoverable. “My interest in research — specifically, how to ensure that research can even occur — led me here,” Loftis said. “Now, the work I do is much more interesting than scanning and typing, but ultimately I am still drawn to the intersection of inquiry and lived
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Getting to Know the Alumni – Chris Robson Posted by: wagnerjc / September 27, 2017 September 27, 2017 Chris Robson, class of 2016 MSMR Graduate, discusses his experiences with the program and how it got him to where he is today.Why PLU’s MSMR Program? The PLU MSMR program far exceeded my expectations and gave me the skills I needed to grow both personally and professionally. In my professional life, the program gave me much more than the knowledge of market research and the tools used in the
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