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Dana Shreaves Instructional Designer Phone: 253-535-7572 Email: bodewedl@plu.edu Office Location:Mortvedt Library - Room 329 Status:Working Remotely Biography Biography Dana is a staff member in the Office of the Provost and has been employed at PLU since August 2013. She works with faculty and staff on projects related to teaching, learning, and technology through consultations, workshops, presentations, and special events like the PLUTO Institute. Dana leads PLUTO programming for the

Logan Denen MSW Fellow, Health Navigator he/him Email: logan.denen@plu.edu Office Location: Dean of Students Office - - corner of 121st St. S and Park Ave. S Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm (On Campus) Tue: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm (On Campus) Thu: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm (On Campus) Fri: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Professional Biography Personal Education B.S., Psychology, Pacific Luthern University, 2024 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Psychology: Sport and Exercise Psychology, Dance, Religion

Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop.  For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “My success in the publishing world is limited, but my success as a writer has been boundless.  Every book I have written has taken me on an adventure I would have thought impossible beforehand. I am a middle-aged man

Kayla Harvey, PhD, MSN, PNP-BC Assistant Professor of Nursing Phone: 253.535.7672 Email: kayla.harvey@plu.edu Biography Biography After many years of experience as a pediatric nurse practitioner in the critical and acute care setting, I have expanded my practice into research in order to better understand and support families during a pediatric hospitalization.  I enjoy sharing my clinical experience and researcher insight as faculty working with nursing students at PLU. Education  PhD

John Stewart User Support Team Manager Phone: 253-535-7431 Email: stewartj@plu.edu Office Location:Mortvedt Library - Room 144 Employed: 2 Years Biography Biography John comes to PLU with over 20+ years of experience in the information technology field. He was recently employed at Community 1st Credit Union in DuPont, WA where he held an Information Services support consultant position within the firm’s IT department for 10 years. John also earned 13 years of his IT experience as an IT field

Barrie Jean Borich Nonfiction Biography Biography Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Apocalypse, Darling (2018), which was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award.  PopMatters said “Apocalypse, Darling soars and seems to live as a new form altogether. It’s poetry, a meditation on life as ‘the other,’ creative nonfiction, and abstract art.”  Her memoir Body Geographic (2013) won a Lambda Literary Award in Memoir, and in a starred review Kirkus called the book “…an elegant literary map that

Svend Rønning Professor of Music - Violin; Coordinator of String Studies Phone: 253-535-7605 Email: svend.ronning@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 110 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Status:On Sabbatical Website: https://sites.google.com/a/plu.edu/svend-ronning/ Professional Biography Education D.M.A., Yale University, 1997 M.M.A., Yale University, 1993 M.M., Yale University, 1991 B.M. summa cum laude, Violin Performance, Pacific Lutheran University

from the Music Teachers National Association and is a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. He has been honored with the Excellence in Education Award from Ohio Magazine.  Dr. Bennett served multiple terms as Commissioner on the Washington State Arts Commission, on the Grants Committee of The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, and as Commissioner on the Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Commission. He has served on the executive boards of the Music Teachers National Association, Central Ohio

Designer’s Forum Participant 2010 Michael Merritt Designer showcase participant Biography Amanda Sweger is a lighting and scenic designer who has free-lanced in Seattle, Chicago, Nashville, and Philadelphia. She received an MFA from Northwestern University in 2011 and is now a tenured professor at Pacific Lutheran University where she has been a professor since 2012. She has been the chair of theatre and dance since Fall 2022. She is proud to have designed with companies such as The Second City, TimeLine

Fortress (now 1517 Media); served on the Board of Directors of Lutheran Summer Music, the nation’s premier faith-based music academy for high school students; and now acts as an ambassador for the program. Amy has served many congregations since 1995, and currently is co-Minister of Music at Grace Lutheran Church with her husband Geoffrey. In addition to her keyboard artistry, she is an active singer both recording commercial music and performing live. She treasures singing with Musing, a beautiful