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dictates an innumerable quantity of injustices for those, who like me, that have no choice but to embrace them and do their best despite it all. I graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in May 2014 with a Hispanic Studies major and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. As of now, I volunteer as a member of the Community Advisory Board with the Forest Grove School-Based Health Center and am a member of the Forest Grove Police Department’s Citizens Academy. I work as a freelance Spanish Translator
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dictates an innumerable quantity of injustices for those, who like me, that have no choice but to embrace them and do their best despite it all. I graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in May 2014 with a Hispanic Studies major and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. As of now, I volunteer as a member of the Community Advisory Board with the Forest Grove School-Based Health Center and am a member of the Forest Grove Police Department’s Citizens Academy. I work as a freelance Spanish Translator
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” at the time this policy is enacted or exempt from the latter of these two restrictions. During the years of phased retirement in which an eligible employee is receiving an income payment, most benefits available to regular employees of the university will continue to be available at whatever costs are applicable during any given year. Those benefits include medical insurance, dental program, life insurance, and tuition remission. The university reserves the right to alter or adjust benefits based
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a variety of healthy, locally sourced produce that came from a farmer they know. In a bad season, they’ve invested in a farmer whom they want to stick around for future harvests. O’Brien said he’s bought a share at Zestful Gardens, a Tacoma-based organic farm owned by PLU alumna Holly Foster ’96, for about seven years. He said she is always growing something, even in less fruitful seasons. “It’s an investment, and it’s insurance on their part,” O’Brien said of the annual cost. “I know she’s
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“Resistance: Jewish Resistance and Rescue during the Holocaust” The conference is free and open to the public. RegistrationScheduleLivestreamWednesday, October 23Marla AbrahamRoberta GrossmanRobert P. EricksenMarla AbrahamWho: Marla Abraham, Director Western Region United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Bio: In October of 2018, Marla Eglash Abraham joined the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as our new Western Regional Director, based in our Los Angeles office. Marla is an accomplished
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“Resistance: Jewish Resistance and Rescue during the Holocaust” The conference is free and open to the public. RegistrationScheduleLivestreamWednesday, October 23Marla AbrahamRoberta GrossmanRobert P. EricksenMarla AbrahamWho: Marla Abraham, Director Western Region United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Bio: In October of 2018, Marla Eglash Abraham joined the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as our new Western Regional Director, based in our Los Angeles office. Marla is an accomplished
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January term in Uruguay, spring semester in Granada, Spain, and then for a fall semester I was in London. I was aware of study away in high school, and I was going to make it happen no matter where I went to college, but I really liked the idea of J-term at PLU, that there were so many options, and that study away was such a priority here. Studying away my first year: I did Uruguay my first year, and there were a lot of good lessons to learn. I had different expectations based on a couple of trips I
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and Mr. Darcy, Jane Austen’s 1813 opus Pride and Prejudice is also a story of inequality, exploring what it means to experience privilege, discrimination, and happiness. Whether through Elizabeth’s insistence on finding a partner she loves and respects, Charlotte Lucas’ desire for financial stability, or Lydia Bennet’s lack of consideration for other people, Austen paints a picture of the gender-, socioeconomic-, and reputation-based discrimination that women found themselves subject to while
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Sanditon specifically, does chart an overall rise in depicting and celebrating Afro-textured hair in cinematography after decades of discrimination in Hollywood and mainstream media. In fact, this Sanditon episode arrived not quite a month after the US House of Representatives passed the CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act) for the second time. Although the Senate has yet to pass it, the move would finally make discrimination based on hairstyle and texture illegal at
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allows me to help people, and thankfully social work provides many avenues to explore that. I think I still am exploring it. What do you enjoy most about your work? I love the opportunities within social work to do ANYTHING—you can work in the community, in a hospital, in another country or from home—the possibilities are endless. I enjoy that as a growing profession, research is expanding in this field and the emphasis on evidenced-based practices is growing and supporting the work that some people
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