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areas of teaching and research interest include public policy, American government, Latino politics and race/ethnic politics. She is author of the book Living the Dream: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Youth (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) with Jessica Lavariega Monforti, and Melissa R. Michelson.  She is also the author of the book Everyday Injustice: Latino Professionals and Racism (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc. 2011), which won the prestigious American Political Science

throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan, and is a founding member of the Left Coast Brass, and Oly Chamber Brass. Ryan is also in demand as an educator. In addition to maintaining a private low brass studio, he is Lecturer of Trombone at Pacific Lutheran University and is also on faculty at Saint Martin’s University teaching the trombone studio and brass pedagogy. As an active clinician, he has presented on trombone pedagogy at the Washington Music Educators Association State Conference, the National

Shelly Myers Lecturer - Oboe she/her Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: myerssd@plu.edu Biography Biography Shelly Myers currently serves as Lecturer of oboe at Pacific Lutheran University and holds the second oboe position in the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Lethbridge, and a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where she also pursued doctoral studies. Prior to moving to Seattle, she served

Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Tripoli-Libya (2007), and six years of experience in the telecommunication industry. He also held a teaching position at Technical Engineering College. Maoloud has dedicated himself to developing his identity as a researcher. This has resulted in around 20 publications in various journals, conferences, and books. He is also a member of OMEGARHO®, American Society for Engineering Management, Portland PowerBI User Group, and Portland R User Group. He is an

David Allan Cates Fiction Biography Biography David Allan Cates is the author of five novels, most recently Tom Connor’s Gift, a gold medalist in the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Book awards.  His first collection of poetry, The Mysterious Location of Kyrgyzstan, was released in the spring, 2016.  His other novels include: Hunger in America, a New York Times Notable Book, X Out of Wonderland, and Freeman Walker, both Montana Book Award Honor Books, and Ben Armstrong’s Strange Trip Home, a

Coryell, Freddie Hubbard, Diane Schuur, Mose Allison, Charlie Byrd and Eartha Kitt. He currently performs and records with the Jovino Santos Neto Quartet, Greta Matassa and Susan Pascal. Ivester has also performed with the Honolulu, Spokane and Walla Walla symphony orchestras. Ivester is a founding member of the professional percussion ensemble Happy Hammers, a group that performs a broad cross-section of percussion music of various ethnic origins including the steel drums from Trinidad, African

years of my career. I then entered a PACU residency and have worked in that setting ever since. I have been lucky enough to get excellent training in PACU Phase 1, Phase 2, Admit, and GI Special procedures. I have served as charge nurse throughout much of my career, I also spent one year as a PACU Nurse educator. Throughout my career I have always remembered my time as a student, remembering how daunting it was! That is what drove me to teaching. While this is my first year with PLU, I have served

. Currently, at PPE, Angenette is serving the PK-12 community, managing inservice and professional development offerings for educators, as well as other community-building opportunities. Living in Tacoma for the past 19 years, Angenette considers herself a true Tacoman, and PLU has always been part of the community that she, her spouse, 3 kids, and Kota the dog have come to enjoy. As an Argentine, safe topics of conversation include soccer, steak, and sipping yerba mate.

Dream Gonzales, LAT, ATC Community Director for Stuen & Ordal Halls she/her Phone: 253-535-7700 Email: dgonzales@plu.edu Office Location:Stuen Hall - Room 117 Professional Biography Education M.S.E., Higher Education Administration, University of Kansas, 2019 B.S., Computer Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2017 Responsibilities Campus Life Responsibilities Supervise the Ordal and Stuen RA’s Support the following Learning Communities in Ordal & Stuen Halls: First in

multi-component polymer blends both in bulk and as thin films Physical characterization technique include: light scattering optical and atomic force microscopy neutron scattering Monte Carlo techniques Use of metathesis, anionic, and controlled radical synthetic techniques to produce new materials for macro and microphase separation applications Polymer/structure relationships studied via spin-lattice relaxation measurements of local segmental dynamics in polymers Promoting the teaching and learning