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and teaches during the summer at The Evergreen Music Festival and The Hammond Ashley Bass Workshop. Her double bass students have placed in the top three at the state level numerous times and frequently win concerto competitions across the region. Dr. Jensen has also taught at Central Washington University, Bowling Green State University, and was a graduate student instructor at the University of Michigan. In recent years, Dr. Jensen was awarded the Outstanding Master Studio Teacher Award from the

Susana Weisinger Lead Cook Phone: 253-535-7472 Email: weisinsl@plu.edu Biography Biography I am from California. I have been married for 15 years. I have three kids. I have been in the food industry for 19 years. I enjoy working at PLU. I have a culinary background. I love what I do.

facility planning. Tom also has supervisory responsibility for the Director of Campus Safety. A transplanted Midwesterner, Tom is very happy to call PLU and Tacoma home. When away from the office he enjoys exploring and taking advantage of local opportunities with his family and friends.

Rowena Hammill Lecturer - Cello Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: hammilrj@plu.edu Professional Biography Education M. Mus., Indiana University B. Mus., Northern Illinois University Biography Rowena Hammill has been an active performer and teacher throughout her long career. As a cellist she has performed as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, served as Associate Principal Cello for both the Los Angeles Chamber and Opera Orchestras, and played chamber music all over the United States from the

Designer’s Forum Participant 2010 Michael Merritt Designer showcase participant Biography Amanda Sweger is a lighting and scenic designer who has free-lanced in Seattle, Chicago, Nashville, and Philadelphia. She received an MFA from Northwestern University in 2011 and is now a tenured professor at Pacific Lutheran University where she has been a professor since 2012. She has been the chair of theatre and dance since Fall 2022. She is proud to have designed with companies such as The Second City, TimeLine

sociology from Western Washington University, and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2012. As a faculty member, Gregson has taught and conducted research in the areas of deviance, gender, and qualitative research methods. Over the span of her career, she has published on such topics as teenage mothers, incarcerated mothers, and divorced women. Since 2010 she has been conducting participant observation research with the authors

Sailu Lulu Li, Ph.D., CFA Associate Professor Phone: 253-535-7301 Email: lilb@plu.edu Office Location: Morken Center for Learning & Technology - 335 Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Biography Biography Dr. Li joined the PLU School of Business as an Assistant Professor in Finance in 2018. She earned her PhD in Business Administration with concentration in Finance from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Prior to joining PLU, Dr. Li served as Senior

direction of Leon Fleisher). Recent solo performances include repeat appearances at Estes Park Music Festival Winter Series in Colorado, performing at the College Music Society 2017 conference in Vancouver, B.C., a performance at the Oklahoma Music Teachers’ Association 2016 State Conference, and frequent two-piano concerts as part of the duo she forms with pianist Ricardo de la Torre. Lark was born in California and grew up studying the piano and the violin. She received a DMA in piano performance from

encouraging them to make discoveries of their own. Above all, I try on a daily basis to remind myself and my students of the joy that literature can provide both reader and writer, the relief from a world that often suppresses joy, the pleasure of finding a way to communicate genuinely what it feels like to be human. What a wonderful way to spend one’s life, working day after day to compose, in the words of the great William Goyen, ‘the music of what was.’”

James Albrecht Chair of Department of English Phone: 253-535-7698 Email: albrecjm@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 207-D Professional Additional Titles/Roles Professor of English Education Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1995 M.A., Rutgers University, 1989 B.A., Amherst College, 1985 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise American Literature Pragmatism Books Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison (Fordham University Press 2012) : View Book