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  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brenda Miller edited the anthology The Next Draft: Inspiring Craft Talks from the Rainier Writing Workshop. Her most recent collection of her own work is A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form. She is the author of five more essay collections, including An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir, and she is the recipient of six Pushcart Prizes.

    essays with Julie Marie Wade, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, received the Cleveland Poetry Center Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her poetry chapbook, The Daughters of Elderly Women, received the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. She coauthored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, now in its third edition from McGraw-Hill. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction. Statement: “As both a writer and a teacher, I’m so interested

  • Assistant to the Dean | College of Health Professions | howardrm@plu.edu | 253-535-7659 | Rachel Howard is the Senior Administrative Assistant for the College of Health Professions and the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy.

    Rachel Howard Assistant to the Dean Phone: 253-535-7659 Email: howardrm@plu.edu Office Location: Garfield Station - 104 Professional Biography Education B.A., English, University of Windsor , 2006 Biography Rachel Howard is the Senior Administrative Assistant for the College of Health Professions and the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy. In 2006, she graduated from the University of Windsor with a background in Literature. Upon obtaining her BA, she accepted a teaching position abroad

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  • Resident Assistant Professor of Theatre, Costume Designer, Costume Shop Manager | Theatre & Dance | anderskw@plu.edu | 253-535-7326 | Kathleen Anderson has been a member of the design faculty in the PLU Theatre Program since 1998.

    designs at PLU include both Costume and Set Design for Twelfth Night, Costume Design for Cabaret, Company, and The Fantasticks, as well as Puppet and Costume Design for The Floating World. Kathleen has also designed for the PLU Music Department, including Set Design and Scenic Artistry for several of the annual Christmas Concerts, and Costume Design for The Magic Flute and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Kathy has designed extensively for Tacoma Opera and for Harlequin Productions in Olympia, among others

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  • Resident Assistant Professor | Marriage and Family Therapy | ginnq@plu.edu | 253-535-7599 | Quantas Ginn (he/him) is a marriage, couples, and family therapist and AASECT Certified sex therapist.

    Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. He operates his own private practice, Quantas Ginn Therapy. Quantas attended Seattle Pacific University and resides in the Greater Seattle area with wife and two kids.

  • Chair of Earth Science | Earth Science | lechlear@plu.edu | 253-535-7744 | My research centers on mountain building processes and regional climate change and the associated influences of each on atmospheric dynamics.

    ., Physics (Geophysics concentration), Cum Laude, Denison University, 2006 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Sedimentology Stable Isotope Geochemistry Tectonics Paleoclimate Selected Presentations 2014 GSA Annual Meeting, Systematic variability in clumped isotope temperatures of loess carbonates during Late Pleistocene climate change, Palouse loess, USA, Vancouver, BC (2014) 2014 GSA Annual Meeting, Impact of carbonate depositional setting and seasonality on clumped isotope records of topography and climate

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  • MSW Fellow / Non-Clinical Case Worker | Wellbeing Services and Resources | stephanie.gulledge@plu.edu | Stephanie is a BSW graduate of PLU, and a current MSW student with the graduating class of 2025. .

    Stephanie Gulledge MSW Fellow / Non-Clinical Case Worker she/her Email: stephanie.gulledge@plu.edu Professional Biography Personal Additional Titles/Roles Biography Stephanie is a BSW graduate of PLU, and a current MSW student with the graduating class of 2025. Interests Reading, cross-stiching and embroidery, gaming Fun Facts I was in a competitive bowling league in high school. Favorite drink: Dr Pepper, specifically the cream soda flavor!

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  • Assistant Professor of Biology | Department of Biology | lnervo@plu.edu | 253-535-7376 | My discipline of interest is developmental biology, which is the study of the processes needed for animals and plants to grow and develop.  Developmental Biology is an excellent field that intersects, genetics, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology and comparative anatomy to answer key organismal growth questions.

    Drosophila Research Conference, Philadelphia, PA (April 2018) Selected Articles LA.Manning, KZ Perez-Vale, KN Schaefer, MT Sewell, M. Peifer. "The Drosophila Afadin and ZO-1 homologs Canoe and Polychaetoid act in parallel to maintain epithelial integrity when challenged by adherens junction remodeling." Mol Biol Cell 2019: LA.Manning, J. Sheth, S. Bridges, A, Saadin, K. Odinammadu, D. Andrew D, S. Spencer , D. Montell, M. Starz-Gaiano. "A hormonal cue promotes timely follicle cell migration by modulating

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  • Professor of Sociology | Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice | guerreay@plu.edu

    in, 2010-2012 K.T. Tang Excellence in Research Award, 2010 Pacific Lutheran University Faculty Excellence Award, 2000 Since 1994 Dr. Leon-Guerrero has served as an appointed member of the Washington State’s Institutional Review Board approving human subjects research in the jurisdiction of three Washington State agencies: the Department of Social and Health Services, the Department of Health, and the Department of Labor and Industries Professional Memberships/Organizations American Sociological

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  • Manager of Short-Term Programs | Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education | olsencd@plu.edu | 253-535-7628 | Courtney Olsen (she/her) is the Manager of Short-Term Programs at the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education.

    Courtney Olsen Manager of Short-Term Programs she/her Phone: 253-535-7628 Email: olsencd@plu.edu Office Location:Wang Center for Global Education Status:Working Hybrid Professional Biography Education B.A., Economics and History, Pacific Lutheran University, 2018 M.St., Modern British History, University of Oxford, 2020 Responsibilities Supports faculty in the development, implementation, and budget management of Short-Term Study Away Programs including travel logistics Supports faculty in

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  • Associate Professor of Flute and Music Theory | Music | rhynejl@plu.edu | 253-535-7058 | Jennifer Rhyne is Associate Professor of Flute and Music Theory at Pacific Lutheran University.

    Brook University. She plays Second Flute with Symphony Tacoma, Principal Flute with Vashon Opera, and appears regularly with groups including NW Sinfonietta, Olympia Symphony, Lyric Opera NW, and on programs such as the Icicle Creek Concert Series, the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, and the Second City Chamber Music Series. Dr. Rhyne has been a lecturer and clinician across the US and abroad. Her article “Discovering Muczynski’s Unknown Gem” was published in 2019 in The Flutist Quarterly. She

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