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independent and creative thinking that are necessary for our communities and societies to thrive,” said Tamara R. Williams, Executive Director of PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education and coordinator of the event. “If there is one thread that connects the speakers and panels in this symposium, it is that they disrupt predictable and repetitive ways of thinking and acting; they all invite the audience to reflect more deeply on what humans have in common rather than what keeps us apart.” Read Previous Amy

Seattle-area native spent much of her time listening to KUOW, their local National Public Radio station.“We have a radio in my kitchen, right above where we cook, so pretty much I’d wake up, come into the kitchen and KUOW would be on every single day,” Rich said. “So that style of radio is very close to my heart.” This fall, Rich is pairing her love of audio storytelling and theatre education to create an independent production of “The War of the Worlds.” Based on the H.G. Wells novel, the show’s

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.” What is a skill that you learned at PLU that has transferred to your “real world” work? “Though I’m certainly still in the academic world, the education I received at PLU has certainly given me a strong base for adjusting to such a diverse city and an intensive program. PLU’s emphasis on vocation allowed me to find my passion (theatre) and therefore gave me the drive to seek out a way to continue learning, while not being afraid to really strive to fulfill my vocation. As for the adjustment to the

the students and faculty of PLU’s division of Humanities are also grateful to you, our community. When you keep in touch about the ways you are using your PLU education in the world, it reminds us about the importance of what we are doing. When we heard how you have been managing the pandemic, and when you offered words of support, it made a huge difference and helped us through this last year. Thank you.  We are also grateful to see positive signs of infections declining where vaccines are being

tribes in the area, we hope to build a cooperative program that meets local needs and provides a space for Indigenous ways of knowing at PLU. This won’t be about framing Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples as the object of study. Instead, it will be about empowerment and about building an education based on an Indigenous paradigm. A member of the Puyallup Tribe harvesting camas on PLU’s campus during an event co-organized by the Native and Indigenous Studies program in 2021 Ebenezer Scrooge

through PLU’s School of Business. It was those experiences, he says, that helped him get to where he is today. Q: What motivated you to attend PLU, and how did it prepare you for your career? Did you ever imagine being a bank president? Steve Maxwell: I wanted to find a school that was fairly close to my home in Portland and offered a first-rate education. And I wanted to play college basketball! PLU had been recruiting me to play for them and after meeting the coach and visiting the campus, I was

writing content for the nonprofit’s website. Her beat was technological solutions and global education. She wrote pieces about artificial intelligence as a solution to poverty, and the education of refugees to name a few. This sort of research-based, nonfiction writing is Hurtt’s comfort zone. In her junior year she switched majors from biology to English literature, making one of the biggest jumps between academic disciplines. But her experience in analytical writing was one of the reasons she

before each screening and a Q&A afterward, both conducted by faculty members of different programs in languages and literatures. For the Uruguayan documentary, the filmmaker Pablo Martínez Pessi will join us to introduce the film and lead the Q&A.About The Festival The Tournées Film Festival is a program of the FACE Foundation (French American Cultural Exchange in Education and the Arts), in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French cinema to American

Studies. This year, Einan added Chinese to her coursework. “I think it is really important to study languages because they are how people communicate,” says Einan. She sees a strong connection between her language studies and her love of literature. “I would really like to be able to read books from different cultures in their original languages.” After graduation, Einan will begin work on her Master of Education degree at PLU. She hopes to become either a high school history or English teacher. She