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1997 Nobel Peace Prize for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and author of I Will Not Be Broken. such as this that we all carry around with us, he noted recently. It’s a date, a time when life changes, and it’s up to us to decide how to respond to the event and make critical choices that will shape our future. One individual, White noted, “can make changes that have ripple effects around the world,” if there is enough determination behind that passion to make a change for the better

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loved ones.As a university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), we are called upon to live our commitment to combating racism and white supremacy. We commend our students, alumni, faculty, and staff who already are contributing their professional expertise and volunteering their time, energy, and financial resources to antiracism causes. At PLU, we strive to equip our students — and ourselves — with the critical thinking, compassion, and courage to contribute to the dismantling of

, Africans and African-Americans relations, and critical service-learning as a pedagogical practice in peace education.DR. ROBIN DiANGELORobin DiAngelo, Ph.D., is director of Equity for Sound Generations, Seattle/King County, and a consultant and trainer for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice. Growing up poor led her to explore class oppression and how her experience differed from others in poverty because she is white. Her work on “white fragility,” a defensive response to real

In their own words: Global Studies majors on what it’s like to study (and study away!) at PLU We asked just-about-to-graduate global studies majors to share their thoughts on what it's like to be a global studies major at PLU. Here's what they had to say.  Posted by: mhines / July 21, 2023 July 21, 2023 Why global studies at PLU? “As a first year, I enrolled in GLST 210 ‘just because’ and by the end of the year had switched my intentions of a pre-med degree to declaring both a Global Studies

PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition Cassio Vianna, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies, has been awarded a grant to write a 4-movement suite entitled Invisible Garden, that blends jazz, chamber music and Brazilian music. Posted by: Liza Conboy / April 18, 2024 Image: Jazz Under the Stars featuring Vianna/Bergeron Brazilian Quintet with Cassio Vianna on piano at PLU, Thursday

Five exceptional staff members receive PLU’s Distinguished Staff Award at annual holiday banquet Posted by: Jeffrey Roberts / January 5, 2024 Image: Recipients of the 2023 Distinguished Staff Awards are honored during the annual holiday banquet on Thursday, December 14, 2023. From left to right, recipients are Keleigh Allen, Greg Briggs, Seth Carlson, Jennifer Childress-White and Ryan Marsh. January 5, 2024 By Jeffrey RobertsPLU Marketing & CommunicationsAwardees are nominated for their

Painter’s Perspective on Illuminating the Saint John’s Bible.” Sponsored by the Lutheran Studies program. Who Will Win the White House: The Current State of the Race Sept. 14 | 7:30 p.m. | Rieke 103 PLU Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics and Government Michael Artime and presidential historian Mike Purdy will discuss the party conventions, the vice-presidential picks, fluctuating polls and the upcoming debates. Sponsored by the Department of Politics and Government. Topics on Tap: Election Edition

woman.”” “She was an activist-author who never shied away from difficult subjects, but instead, embraced them in all their complexity. Lorde was a critic of second-wave feminism, helmed by white, middle-class women, and wrote that gender oppression was not inseparable from other oppressive systems like racism, classism and homophobia. She has made lasting contributions in the fields of feminist theory, critical race studies and queer theory through her pedagogy and writing.” – from https

remain comfortable this entire time, I didn’t do my job,” she told the audience of more than 200 educators, administrators and students at the event hosted by the South Puget Sound Higher Education Diversity Partnership. “(Race) is an incredibly complex and nuanced topic,” DiAngelo, Ph.D., explained. “The racial status quo is comfortable and I want to shake it up.” The theme and central question of the institute proved to be challenging: “what does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race