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Ghazal Rootia, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor Phone: 253-535-7256 Email: rootia@plu.edu

Kirsten Kreis, B.A. Business Outreach Director Phone: 253-535-8102 Email: kirsten.kreis@plu.edu

Rhoberta Haley Dean School of Nursing Email: rhaley@plu.edu

Kristi Edrington Senior Administrative Assistant Phone: 253-535-7675 Email: edringkm@plu.edu Office

Lutheran University NSCAA National Letter of Commendation Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, Pacific Lutheran University National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) Washington State Pathfinder Award CASE Professor of the Year, School of Physical Education National Association of Sport and Physical Education: Inspiration Award Biography Dr. Colleen M. Hacker, Ph.D. Internationally recognized Speaker and Consultant in Performance Psychology Five Time Olympic Games Coaching Staff

-generation college students, leadership and social justice, and multicultural education. Eva’s passion is in being a leader/educator and working in partnership with others to become their best selves. Her active research is in the vocational development of a college student. Interests Traveling, dogs, golf, and time with family Fun Facts My husband and I have six dogs and and I was a Rotary Exchange student in southern Germany for a gap year between high school and PLU. Favorite Drink: I love a black

Laurie Armatas, MSN, RN Clinical Instructor of Nursing Phone: 253-535-7696 Email: larmatas@plu.edu

Samuel Torvend Professor Emeritus and Faculty Fellow in Humanities Phone: 253-535-8106 Email: torvensa@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building - Room 222 J Professional Biography Video Additional Titles/Roles Director for External Relations - Wild Hope Center for Vocation Education Ph.D., Historical Theology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, 1990 M.A., Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology, Dubuque, Iowa, 1980 M.Div., Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, 1978 B.A., History, Pacific

-hundred-year-old wheat farm in Nebraska, and the changing role of food, God, science, race and agriculture in society, and was a finalist for the Lukas Prize, awarded by Columbia and Harvard University’s Schools of Journalism.  She lives in San Francisco. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction. Statement:  I think of writing as intimately connected to seeing. I ask myself–and students–“What do you see that other people are missing?” As artists, we want to entertain and we want to be

roles as Assistant Conductor at MSU, MI, UMass Amherst, MA, and Tchaikovsky Music College, Armenia, as well as collaborations with professional orchestras like the Grand Rapids Symphony and Mansfield Symphony Orchestra. Her dedication to music education is evident through collaborations with high school Orchestras, festivals and conferences as a clinician and adjudicator including WMEA Conference Junior All-State Orchestra, Lake Stevens HS Solo Ensemble Competition (MPMEA), PLU Invitational High