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Team All-Conference selection and a consensus All-American as a senior in 2003. Carlson led the nation in forced fumbles as a senior, earning NWC Defensive Player of the Year and NCAA West Region Defensive Player of the Year honors. Carlson closed his career second on the all-time sacks list with 36 and was the PLU Male Athlete of the Year as a senior. Carlson helped the Lutes win 28 games on the gridiron, earning a conference title in 2001 and making two trips to the NCAA Tournament. Chad Barnett

contribution. All across the United States – in classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and campus communities – international students make significant contributions to the quality of American academic life. Therefore, international education has become a proud U.S. tradition in colleges and universities through out our country. NAFSA is an organization of individuals worldwide advancing international education and exchange. NAFSA serves its members, their institutions and organizations, and others engaged

Media Services, a media relations firm based in Bellevue, Wash. As a first-generation American, Cynthia became interested in her family’s immigration story after being surrounded by Seattle’s Sephardic Jewish religion, culture and history. She is editor of her mother Claire Barkey Flash’s epistolary memoir, “A Hug from Afar,” promotes the Sephardic traditions and culture today as president of the Seattle Sephardic Network, and is helping her son produce a film on the last survivors of Rhodes

Jane Wong Tuesday, March 15, 2022 7PM, Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC This event is open to the campus community for in-person, socially distanced attendance. Jane Wong is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James Books, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). Her poems and essays can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, POETRY, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, and Ecotone. A

2017. Her many honors include a 2015 Whiting Award and a 2016-17 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. She has also received awards and scholarships from the Blue Mountain Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She received her MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2012, New England Review, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and elsewhere. She teaches

anthropologists and scholars of slavery, the book expands the research on Haratine people beyond a focus on major public figures, by showing how women are transforming their status in their everyday lives. Wiley also hopes non-governmental organizations and people working in Mauritania might benefit from its nuanced understanding of Haratine diversity. For general readers, the book portrays Muslim women who refute prevalent stereotypes. Just like Christianity, Islam takes a variety of forms, Wiley points out

Christianity, Islam takes a variety of forms, Wiley points out. Haratine women, whose lives are defined by much more than religion, often find Islam empowering. “It supports their economic endeavors,” Wiley said. “In Islam, a woman controls her own money.” “They are smart, savvy, bold, outspoken, entrepreneurial,” she said, “the funniest women I’ve ever met.” An entire chapter is dedicated to their jokes, which, Wiley argues, air views that might otherwise be hard to speak publicly. In the market — “a de

she hails from a religious family, and often felt “stress” when it came to sexuality. She said she struggled reconciling Christianity and queer identity. “I had heard so much about (how) being queer was a sin, but I didn’t feel like a bad person,” she said. “Ultimately, I came to realize…I was loved for who I was.” While Brewer’s time at PLU helped her feel more comfortable with her sexuality, the campus wasn’t immune to larger societal tension surrounding LGBTQ issues. She recalls one incident in

-length collection, Night Angler (BOA Editions), appears in Spring 2019. Davis’s honors include the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the Wabash Prize for Poetry, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. He has recent work published or forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, and Ploughshares. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Davis serves as the

Vermont College of the Fine Arts, and is an alumna of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and was a Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at the Breadloaf Writers Conference and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. In addition to teaching in The Rainier Writing Workshop, Jennifer teaches in the IAIA MFA Creative Writing Program and currently