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with three Bethel School District high schools in the spring of 2021. The partnership was so successful that it now includes Washington high schools across 30 school districts. For more information, visit the partnership website.   PLU Media Contact Lace Smith smithla@plu.edu TCC Media Contact Tamyra Howser thowser@tacomacc.edu Read Previous Lute Powered: PLU alumni help lead Chief Leschi programs dedicated to student support and success Read Next PLU, TCC Announce Automatic Admission Partnership

Determination), Tacoma Public Schools. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) Using examples from entertainment, news media, advertising and K-12 public education research, DiAngelo spent the morning illustrating a jarring truth: “the default of our society is the reproduction of white supremacy.” The afternoon centered on exploring the roots of white defensiveness and microaggressions, as well as ways to challenge racism in individual relationships, classrooms and institutions at large. Diversity Institute co

officer in Minnesota, topped newspapers and social media news feeds. Cunningham watched as friends from a wide range of backgrounds struggled to engage the challenging topic of systemic racism. To address the need for a deeper understanding of race relations in her own backyard, Cunningham founded an event series now known as The People’s Gathering: A Revolution of Consciousness. It’s an initiative designed to provide a supportive space for the PLU community and the broader Puget Sound community to

society. Men were the breadwinners, while women tended to cooking, children and the household. The men over-harvested the fish stock offshore of the island and the island’s economy fell apart. But with the fishing economy dead, the men refused to find new work, as their masculine pride was set on being fishermen. With the social structure of the island dismantled, some of the island’s women decided to become the breadwinners. Now, in 2020, women run many of their own businesses on the island and have

Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle October 5, 2022

Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle October 5, 2022

this meme’s aphorism of self-realization. It is ridiculous because viewers might call her statement categorically wrong: her attention is always focused on herself. In the larger social context of the Regency era, “being kind” and “giving away attention” would have been qualities encouraged in women. The fact that Mary likens it to suffering instead of fulfillment is a moment in which she subverts gender norms. That men receive excessive praise for the same selflessness expected of women adds to

PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle October 5, 2022

Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle October 5, 2022

herself a newspaper reporter, in the end all that mattered was that she was writing—and, for once, not about “dark things.” “I’ve always liked writing and reading,” Patterson said. “It just seems like my path always goes to journalism.” After becoming editor, she immediately worked to launch Premier Media Group’s second magazine, 425, and rebranded South Sound. Both bi-monthly lifestyle magazines cover a variety of topics, including local food, home, fashion and travel. She has worked for Premier