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  • Resident Assistant Professor of Dance | Theatre & Dance | sseder@plu.edu | 253-535-7359 | Sarah Seder is the Resident Assistant Professor of Dance at PLU.

    Sapience Dance Collective from 2008-2016. Her work has been seen at On The Boards and Meany Hall and she has performed in the work of Pat Graney, Marlo Martin, and Wade Madsen among others. She is also a reviewer of jazz dance submissions for Young Arts. Seder earned her BA in Dance and Psychology from Bard College and her MFA in Dance from Smith College.

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  • Professor Emeritus | Master of Business Administration | Dr.

    Kory Brown, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Management & Strategy, University of Utah, 2010 M.B.A., Idaho State University, 1995 B.S.E.E., Brigham Young University, 1991 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Corporate Strategy Entrepreneurship Global Management Collaborative Innovation Selected Publications Accolades Professional Achievement Award – Idaho State University, 2016 Wells Fargo Award for Outstanding Teaching – Pacific Lutheran University, 2012 Dean’s

  • Poetry, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Fleda Brown has published nine collections of poems.

    , either, but we can figure it out by looking closely at the best work we can get our hands on.  No one ever had a ‘voice’ that came from nowhere.  It develops partly from bouncing off other voices—the ones in the workshop, and the ones on the page.  I dearly love being around when the bounce lands in new territory.”

  • Poetry, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia.

    , my job is to support each writer’s individual inquiry into their art, and to inhabit as a reader the negative capability Keats wrote of so beautifully, “without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” I strive to supply accurate description of what’s been achieved by the work at hand, and then to ask artful questions that facilitate honest self-reflection and rewriting as re-visionary work. In counterpoint to supporting artist-led inquiry, I offer a capacious sense of literary history and

  • Professor Emeritus | School of Business | Dr.

    Kory Brown, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Management & Strategy, University of Utah, 2010 M.B.A., Idaho State University, 1995 B.S.E.E., Brigham Young University, 1991 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Corporate Strategy Entrepreneurship Global Management Collaborative Innovation Selected Publications Selected Publications and Presentations Accolades Professional Achievement Award – Idaho State University, 2016 Wells Fargo Award for

  • Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | pyehc@plu.edu | 253-535-7634 | Hannah Pye hails from Georgia and loves the PNW.

    student success. Her research and professional interests include emergency medicine, pediatrics, disaster and emergency preparedness and response, breastfeeding medicine, and methods for investing in student success NCLEX Preparation Biography Hannah Pye hails from Georgia and loves the PNW. She has six years of experience as a staff nurse in the emergency department and has also worked as an administrative nurse. Her teaching experience includes education of both undergraduate and graduate students

  • Assistant Director for Outreach, Counselor | Counseling Services | innocent@plu.edu | 253-535-7206 | James Innocent joins us from Seattle University’s humanistic-centered M.A.

    the field of law, international development, and technology.  James comes to the PLU Counseling Center with a love for the infinite potential between deep human connection and personal identity.  From this love is the belief that every individual has different needs at different moments of time, whether that be spiritually, culturally, and/or experientially.

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  • Assistant Vice President for Student Life Strategic Initiatives and Assessment | Division of Student Life | jes.takla@plu.edu | 253-535-7597

    Three-Study Dissertation. (Publication No. 30637121) [Doctoral dissertation, Azusa Pacific University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. Takla, J. (2015, February). Living the learning: It starts with TLC (themed learning communities). Synergy: Newsletter for NASPA SAPAA Knowledge Community, 9-13. Selected Presentations NASPA Annual Conference, From Arriving to Thriving: THRIVE (Transition, Holistic Wellbeing, Retention, Innovation, Vocation, and Engagement) Framework [Conference Session

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  • Professor of Chemistry | Department of Chemistry | yakelina@plu.edu | 253-535-7554

    Projects Laboratory CHEM 410:  Introduction to Research CHEM 420:  Instrumental Analysis CHEM 440/487: Advanced Organic Chemistry, Advanced Special Topics CHEM 499: Chemistry Senior Capstone PLU Pre-Health Sciences Advising Team Selected Articles Boydston, A., Church, D., Kensy, V., Peterson, G., Yakelis, N. "Investigation of the dynamic nature of 1,2- oxazines derived from peralkylcyclopentadiene and nitrosocarbonyl species." Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Vol. 14, 2016: 5617-5621. Professional

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  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (2022), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.

    Oklahoma. She lives in San Francisco. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement:  “Poetry can expand, challenge, and deepen our ways of knowing. Adrienne Rich wrote: “Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.” I believe my work with you is only to serve as a guide, to encourage you towards what you don’t know you know, and to inspire you to grow deeper into your potential as a writer. Poetry is especially vital in today’s world; my teaching work is to challenge you