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whereabouts,  she disguised herself as a Red Cross nurse and led her son to a new safe house.  Metzelaar recounted his story at the first Powell and Heller Family Conference in Support of Holocaust Education. The year wrapped up in April with a talk by Carl Wilkens, the only American to remain in Rwanda through the 1994 genocide that claimed one million lives. Wilkens discussed the choice he made to stay, even as other relief and aid workers fled. During the three months of violence, Wilkens helped save

graduate school.” “Perhaps now more than ever, I think the world needs as many young people as possible considering the issues and dilemmas of today through the lens of Economics, which considers the implications of scarcity and choice,” Travis says. “Our students leave with the tools to successfully contribute to society in many different venues.” Read Previous From Opportunity to Opry Read Next PLU Alumna Named Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year” COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

next goal is to use my public administration certificate to transition to the public sector next year. Teaching, while it has been a fantastic run, was never my intended career choice. While at PLU my main concentration was global studies, and the master’s degree I finished in the Netherlands was focused on public policy. I am ecstatic for the opportunity to switch careers and become a more useful and engaged citizen.ResoLute: ‘Two families, two countries’What advice do you have to someone else who

realities of the global pandemic that continues to impact us every day. Our plan, based on modeling and indications from public-health agencies, is that we will return to in-person learning for the fall term with the appropriate and necessary health and safety measures in place. In Washington State, the governor’s office is partnering with colleges and universities to develop a phased easing of the “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” restrictions issued in March. Higher education is on a shortlist of industries

conversations about race, has been featured in Salon, NPR, Slate, Alternet and The Seattle Times. Dr. DiAngelo earned her PhD in Multicultural Education from the University of Washington in Seattle and earned tenure at Westfield State University before returning to the Northwest. She was twice honored by her university students as educator of the year.JEWEL DIAMOND TAYLOR Jewel Diamond Taylor is a dynamic speaker, messenger of hope and life coach.  She is known as “the self-esteem doctor.” In the late 1980s

call types. This divergence has been rapid and recent within the last 5,000 to 12,000 years, making it an ideal system to study speciation. Our goal was to examine whether the songs of the different call types have diverged and whether this maintains reproductive isolation. Song is a likely reproductive isolating barrier between the call types because birdsong is used in mate choice and species recognition. Additionally, we hope to identify mechanism(s) responsible for the observed differences in

interventions and repair work that take place in the post-genocide context. Students conduct research and create a poster and presentation about an organization of their choice that works to repair the atrocities of genocide. Past projects have highlighted people working to destroy Cambodian land mines and those working with rape survivors and their offspring in Rwanda. “It’s really just amazing and a powerful aspect of the class that left students, not in despair or thinking that the world is a terrible

of a newborn baby, a smile, a tear, an artist’s stroke of a brush. And here you are … right in the thick of things. You are the one who has the choice to take this time at PLU, and prepare yourself for a life of success, a life of contributions to the world we live in. If you’re here today thinking you’ve got your life together, and you’re invincible and PLU has nothing to offer you, good luck. But even more importantly, if you are here today ready to embrace what these upcoming years have to

at the criteria, it just made sense. These are things we want from PLU students.” Wiley was an obvious choice to lead the program. Not only is she a faculty member who can work directly with the professors on campus, but she is a Peace Corps alumna herself. She taught English for two years in Mauritania, a large country on the northwest coast of Africa. Later, Wiley returned for doctoral work. She maintains connections with communities there.“One thing I learned in the Peace Corps was that

through innovative voter-outreach efforts and community organizing.What motivates you most about your current role? What motivates me the most are the people that make it happen — the volunteers who show up on a Saturday and give a few hours to knock on doors and talk to their neighbors about why a candidate is the best choice for office; students marching in the street for climate action in record numbers around the world; or the first-time candidates, particularly people of color and women, who are