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  • SOD-Awards https://www.plu.edu/diversity-justice-sustainability/sod-awards/

    SOD Awards Spirit of Diversity Awards Friday May 10, 2024 @ 5:30pm Doors open at 5:15pm for drinks & cupcakes, program starts at 5:45pm Anderson University Center, Scandinavian Cultural Center Join us for an opportunity to celebrate students, faculty, and staff who have contributed to the mission through diversity, justice, and sustainability leadership, learning, and care. Graduating Students Students of Color, Queer Students, & First in Family Students The Spirit of Diversity Awards is

  • PLU Admission Blog in Sociology https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/topic/sociology/

    Criminal justice major Raphi Crenshaw ’24 interned at Tacoma Pro Bono and plans to attend law school After graduating from Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup, Raphi Crenshaw ’24 enrolled at PLU with plans to major in biology . “I was going to become a dermatologist, but when I started taking the classes, well, I wasn’t a fan of it,” Crenshaw remembers.… May 17, 2024 AcademicsCurrent StudentsInternshipsInvolvementPLU GradsSociology

  • Speakers https://www.plu.edu/free-at-last-2016/speakers/

    Political Aims of Jesus: Peasant Politics in Herodian Galilee, Jesus and the Peasants, and, with K.C. Hanson, Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts. As a member of the PLU Honors faculty, he has created and taught The Quest for Global Justice. Douglas E. Oakman David Deacon-JoynerDavid Deacon-Joyner is Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at PLU. A native of Memphis, Dr. Deacon-Joyner was mentored by jazz piano great James Williams. In addition to his expertise in

  • Give Frisbee a Try! https://www.plu.edu/recreations/club-sports-teams/womens-ultimate-frisbee/give-frisbee-a-try/

    Women's Ultimate Team Photo Reasons you should consider joining: We fight for social justice! During the Fall 2020 semester, we held our first annual Social Justice Run and raised over $1000 for three organizations that work towards racial justice. We love costumes! For some of our tournaments, we dress up in costumes after choosing a common theme. Past examples include: Cats and Dogs, Food, Tropical, Rainbow, and more! We love dancing! During practices and tournaments we always make sure to

  • PLU Admission Blog in Social Work https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/topic/social-work/

    Social work major and working mom Teranejah Lucas ’23 explores the politics and power of Black hair in her senior capstone Teranejah Lucas, 28, is in her senior year and majoring in social work. She’s preparing to do great things—after already accomplishing significant wins—and wrapping up a fascinating capstone. “As a single parent, first-generation college student, I’m out here defying the odds,” she says. Lucas lives… April 21, 2023 AcademicsCurrent StudentsDiversity Justice

  • Fighting Back against Dobbs v. Jackson https://www.plu.edu/gender-sexuality-race/fighting-back-against-dobbs-v-jackson/

    faculty and staff of the Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies Program and the Center for Diversity, Justice, & Sustainability, reject this wrongful and persecutory decision. We affirm the basic human right for all people to determine their own lives and govern their own bodies. We support a reproductive political movement that goes beyond the pro-choice / pro-life divide to instead embrace reproductive justice for all.  Scholars and activists Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger define reproductive justice

  • Lectures in Religion https://www.plu.edu/prism/lectures-in-religion/

    institutes, and an excellent collection of Lutheran works in the Mortvedt library – all these mark PLU as a place where the study of this reforming movement continues to flourish. The Lutheran Studies Conference is held each September. In September 2014, the focus was Justice in Society: Lutheran Sources of Social Change. Participants considered the question: How might an educational tradition that questions the status quo, provides liberating study, and promotes health and wholeness for the earth

  • Real-World Mentors: Jessica McGifford ’12 https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2013/02/01/real-world-mentors-jessica-mcgifford-12/

    February 1, 2013 Jessica McGifford ’12 Jessica McGifford ’12 and Abi McLane ’08 at the Crystal Judson Family Justice Center. Jessica McGifford ’12 Major: Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies Employer: Our Sister’s House PLU Connection: Abi McLane ’08, victim services supervisor at Crystal Judson Family Justice Center As part of her senior year capstone project, Jessica McGifford was required to take an internship. Through a recommendation from the PLU Women’s Center, she wound up at Pierce

  • On Exhibit: Resources for ‘The Matter of Loneliness’ Wang Center Symposium https://www.plu.edu/library/news/on-exhibit-resources-for-the-matter-of-loneliness-wang-center-symposium/

    creating a nation of nervous wrecks (First U.S. edition). St. Martin’s Press. (PLU Library link) Disability justice Ortiz, Naomi. (2023). Rituals for climate change: A crip struggle for ecojustice (1st ed.). Punctum Books. (PLU Library link) (Open access link) Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi. (2018). Care work: Dreaming disability justice. Arsenal Pulp Press. (PLU Library link) Schalk, Sami. (2022). Black disability politics. Duke University Press. (PLU Library Link) (Open access link) Sins Invalid

  • PLU Admission Blog in Diversity https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/topic/diversity/

    Cece Chan ’24 elevates the experience of Hmong Farmers and their rich history with Seattle’s Pike Place Market For Cece Chan ’24, what began as a love of student advocacy and social justice in high school, has blossomed into activism through art at Pacific Lutheran University. From serving as ASPLU president her junior year, to spending a semester in Trinidad and Tobago, to… May 20, 2024 AcademicsCommunicationDiversityGender Sexuality and Race StudiesGlobal EducationResearchStudent VoiceStudy