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Jared Wright ’14 discusses working on refugee resettlement, impactful internships, and more Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 2, 2020 Image: (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) March 2, 2020 By Zach Powers '10Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 2, 2020) — Jared Wright ‘14 arrived at PLU eager to engage in community work and excited to study social justice. He didn’t have specific plans and didn’t know what it would all look like, but he can clearly remember the excitement he felt
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system, with an eye on how they represent themselves and their experiences in foster care. She interviewed youth currently in foster care as well as those who, like herself, had aged out of the system. The research culminated in a series of theater productions featuring actors with foster experience alongside those without. Benge strives to challenge existing narratives and assumptions about foster youth. Because most of our understanding comes from social workers, psychologists, and a slew of bleak
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a lot of creative conversations this year, thinking about how programs can join together to offer more integrated curricula, where we can collaborate on senior capstone projects, and how we can make it more possible for students to double-major. Many of our degrees complement work that students are doing elsewhere, and we want to do what we can to make that holistic, integrative learning a possibility. How has the pandemic and social unrest impacted our academic programs? The most immediate
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. Vega-Marquis has positioned the foundation as a leader in movement building by shaping its grantmaking and communication strategies to support a nationwide movement of poor and low-income families. Marguerite Casey Foundation supports movement building by investing in organizations that put families at the forefront of efforts to fight poverty and work together across issues, race and ethnicity, regions and egos to bring about social change, and by deploying strategic communications to advance
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to share many of the same core qualities and passions: a penchant for research, a love of data and an endless curiosity about social, political, financial and legal systems. Economics majors from Pacific Lutheran University’s Class of 2015 showcase the value and malleability of the discipline, including two graduates who received two full-ride scholarships to law school, one who received a full-ride scholarship to study Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburg and another who will study
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- McChord in Tillicum and graduated from Clover Park High School in 2008. He was one of the first group of Act Six Scholars – a national group providing scholarships and social justice leadership training for students – on PLU’s campus. The program had profound impacts on his world view. “For somebody in my situation, getting a full ride scholarship to attend PLU made it a financial reality,” he said. “If not for Act Six, I would not have been able to attend PLU.” Part of the appeal of PLU was that it
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Policy under presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama, and ran the ethics program. Drew Griffin '10 Communications director, U.S. Rep. Bob Latta (Ohio’s 5th District) I work to get Rep. Latta’s message out to people in his district and state, as well as nationally. I write press releases and do social media and book interviews with media members in radio, TV and print. There are a lot of good ideas on the policy side of lawmaking, but if you can’t explain to people why it’s important and how it will help
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Big Names on Campus – PLU Resolute Search Back to Landing Page Big Names on Campus Accolades Lute Library Class Notes Class Notes Obituaries Submit a Class Note Big Names on Campus PLU not only sends Lutes out to change the world, but also brings world-changing leaders to PLU. All Arts Business Education Humanities Social Sciences Sciences David Treuer Author Kalen DeBoer UW Football Coach Aubrey Logan Jazz Singer Elana Meyers Taylor Olympian Ryan Gliha United States Diplomat Minh Lê Author
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we begin to represent animals that responsibly place them inside their own lives? Photo taken during a J-term course in Antarctica in 2014 by Saiyare Refaei (‘14) Our obligations to the other creatures on this planet is one of the great ethical questions of our times. Yet the prejudice against animals—“speciesism,” as it’s been called—slows our progress in sorting out these ethical issues. Compare the progress made recently with other major ethical and social issues. In his now-famous book
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