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Voice Lessons, Directs Knights Chorus, Co-Directs Opera Production/Workshop Accolades National Winner, Bel Canto Competition of Chicago Regional Winner, San Francisco Opera Auditions Biography Baritone Barry Johnson is enjoying a successful career as an opera singer, stage director, concert performer, and voice teacher. Having sung roles in more than 20 productions at Seattle Opera, Mr. Johnson has performed as a guest artist with companies throughout the west including Seattle Opera, Tacoma Opera

Cosette Pfaff, M.S. Email: pfaffcm@plu.edu Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Biography Biography Cosette Pfaff brings 25+ years of business practitioner experience, working on both the revenue generating and operational side of business and has a passion for growing healthy organizations. She specializes in performance coaching and training with individuals and teams in the areas of revenue generation, customer service/retention strategies, interpersonal communications, leadership skills

Ren Winnett, DSW, LICSW Assistant Professor of Social Work he/him/his Phone: 253-535-7144 Email: rwinnett@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 114 Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Health Care Health Care and Homelessness Mental Health in Adult Populations Substance Use in Adult Populations Health Care Social Work From A Global Perspective Selected Publications Homeless and Hospitalized: A Case Study of Intervention to Support Collaborative

Challenge Co-PI on National Science Foundation (NSF) S-STEM Track 1 Award, August 2019 - August 2024: $649,981; Title: "Supporting STEM Development at the Roots: Providing Scholarship, Curricular, and Cocurricular Support to Underserved STEM Students." Received National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Opportunity Award, July 2008 – March 2010: $19,300; Title: "Investigations of diversity and novel microbial communities in forest canopy soils: a preliminary study" Professional Memberships/Organizations

Lia Purpura Nonfiction, Poetry Website: http://www.liapurpura.com/ Biography Biography Lia Purpura is the author of eight collections of essays, poems, and translations, most recently, Rough Likeness (essays) and It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (poems).  Her honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Endowment for the Arts and Fulbright Fellowships, three Pushcart prizes, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Nonfiction, and the

. in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University and has continued to serve our department as a sabbatical and retirement replacement. Dr. Mann earned her M.S. in Sport Studies (Sport Behavior and Performance) from Miami University of Ohio and her B.A. in Physical Education (w/ teaching certification and a minor in Sport Psychology) from Pacific Lutheran University where she graduated Cum Laude and was also recognized as WAHPERD Major of the Year. Dr. Mann’s academic background is in

Outstanding Teaching – Pacific Lutheran University, 2012 Dean’s Service Award – Pacific Lutheran University, 2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award - Western Academy of Management, 2009, 2011 Doctoral Student Teaching Excellence Award – University of Utah, 2009 Best Doctoral Student Paper – Western Academy of Management, 2008 Professional Memberships/Organizations Academy of Management Western Academy of Management Biography Dr. Brown teaches strategy, entrepreneurship and global management in the undergraduate

Right (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) : View Book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Authority of Scripture Chapters 4, pgs. 71-90 (Pickwick Publications 2011) : View Book Diversity and Dominion: Dialogues in Ecology, Ethics, and Theology Chapters 14, pgs. 157-165 (Wipf & Stock 2010) : View Book Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the New South Chapters 13, pgs. 246-268 (University of Georgia Press 2009) : View Book Selected Presentations American Society of Church History

Stephen Corey Editor in Residence, Poetry Biography Biography Stephen Corey is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, the latest being There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press, 2003), and six chapbooks.  His poems, essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in dozens of periodicals and anthologies, among them The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, The Kenyon Review, Yellow Silk, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and The ‘Poetry’ Anthology

Expertise Cosmology Particle Physics String Theory Selected Presentations University of Vienna, Cosmological Chaos, Complexity, and the OTOC, Vienna, Austria (October 2020) de-Sitter Constructions in String Theory Workshop, Constraints on dS from Higher Dimensions, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA Saclay, Paris, France (December 2019) Pacific Lutheran University, String Cosmology: Connecting the Physics of the Very-Big and the Very-Small, Tacoma, WA (March 2011) University of Winnipeg, String