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  • honorable traits may harm as much as they help. During a fast-paced hour, Suzy Levy will share a handful of lessons on inclusion from her new book, Mind the Inclusion Gap on how individuals can move beyond our instinct to be nice to having a more skilled approach to inclusion and diversity. Afterwards, she will about how PLU shaped her as a student, how a ‘life of service’ has emerged since graduating from PLU 25 years ago, and how the book came to be. Suzy was the first generation in her family to

  • Keisha Patterson, FEPPS Graduate, Facilitative Mediation Assistant, Center for Dialog and Resolution Theresa Power-Drutis, Director, New Connections Shajuanda Tate, FEPPS Graduate and Jane’s Fellow, Student in Human Services, Tacoma Community College Mary Weir, Program Manager, Freedom Education Project Puget Sound 1:45-3:00pm — Beauty in the Struggle: Empowering Communities Through Hope (Regency Room) Joshua Cushman, PLU Alumnus and Teacher at Lincoln High School 3:45-5:25pm — “After the Bitter

  • from you, our student ambassadors will contact you for additional project details. In the future, the social impact team will host community listening events on campus and in the Parkland/Spanaway area to learn about community needs and new service opportunities. The information will be shared widely so that PLU and community partners can match ongoing needs with meaningful projects. Community organizing in PLU's "Cave" lounge. Photo: John Froschauer/PLU PLU Social Impact ResourcesThe following

  • that is intentionally and enthusiastically interfaith as well as engaged with those of no faith. I’m thrilled and grateful to be able to embrace this new vocational direction and look forward to this new phase of life that is grounded and supported by all that’s come before.

  • David Biespiel Poetry Website: http://atticinstitute.com/ Biography Biography David Biespiel is a contributing writer at The Rumpus, Partisan, American Poetry Review, Politico, New Republic, Slate, Poetry, and The New York Times, among other publications.  He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry.  His

  • published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. The Galleons was listed on the top ten poetry books for 2020 by the New York Public Library and was on the longlist for the National Book Award. Also in 2020, his chapbook During the Pandemic was published by Albion Books. His new book of poems, Moving the Bones, is forthcoming in 2024 from Milkweed Editions. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Oversight of program. Statement:  “I’ve always been intrigued by these two connotations of the word craft—that it

  • Dance 2014 Features Student Choreography Alongside Faculty and Guest Compositions Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 3, 2014 April 3, 2014 See Dance 2014 this Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12. The annual show is a repertory concert comprised of dances created by eight PLU student choreographers, PLU’s Dance Team, and two works choreographed by Dance 2014 Director Paula J. Peters, and Guest Choreographer Mary Reardon. The show opens in Eastvold Auditorium in the new Karen Hille Phillips

  • be someone we can all relate to and cheer for,” Wee says. “Kids are clever, kids are smart, so theatre itself does not have to change much.” Although this is only the second children’s play produced at PLU in thirty years, Wee believes there’s an opportunity to make this both a popular and a thriving aspect of PLU’s theatre program. PLU’s new Artistic Director of Theatre Tom Smith has a background in children’s theatre. “I am a huge advocate of theatre for young audiences,” Smith says. “Children

  • de Region de Paris Hector Berlioz B.M., Piano Performance, University of the Pacific Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Piano Responsibilities Applied piano lessons, keyboard lab, and accompanying Biography In demand as a solo and collaborative artist as well as an adjudicator and presenter, Dr. Lark Powers has performed at such venues as Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, the 92nd Street Y in New York City and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Internationally she has been heard in Europe

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  • musicians from nationally renowned orchestras. “One guy was from the New York Philharmonic and had played chamber music with Albert Einstein at Princeton,” Ronning remembered. “We were intimidated and inspired at the same time to have the concertmaster of the National Symphony give us a lesson in the Lake Yellowstone Hotel lobby,” he laughed. Graduating from PLU in 1989, Rønning won a fellowship to Yale and earned his masters and a doctorate at the university. Rønning loved the university setting, but