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Jared Wright ’14 discusses working on refugee resettlement, impactful internships, and more Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 2, 2020 Image: (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) March 2, 2020 By Zach Powers '10Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 2, 2020) — Jared Wright ‘14 arrived at PLU eager to engage in community work and excited to study social justice. He didn’t have specific plans and didn’t know what it would all look like, but he can clearly remember the excitement he felt

languages, and created a positive, identity-affirming environment for everyone to grow and learn.How has your faith influenced you as you pursue your teaching career?  I am Catholic, and I have always been in religiously affiliated schools. I attended Catholic school from kindergarten through 12th grade, and I have had the privilege and the blessing to be able to observe teaching in the local Catholic schools. I have always said that I want my students to be critical thinkers and social justice leaders

math teacher, but he soon discovered he had a passion for technology and business. He’s followed that passion ever since. His career in information and technology has spanned three decades and included chapters at consultancies, a start-up, and large corporations like Microsoft and Weyerhaeuser. He is now the director of information technology at the Port of Tacoma. Read our Q&A with Mark Miller ’88. Lute Powered: AmazonLute Powered: MultiCare Health SystemLute Powered: City of Tacoma Read Previous

Geistesgeschichte and has two further articles currently under review with the Journal of Austrian Studies. Clayton Regehr is a senior English / Writing major, also completing minors in History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He completed this article as part of his work in English 320: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction. Read Next The Trail to Social Justice: Ultrarunning Meets Dark Green Religion LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May

— they were stories of empowerment and optimism. Stories of hope. It reminded me that life hits everyone in different ways. I learned that homelessness comes in many different ways. Lack of social support, financial instability, legal issues. I felt a sense of being uplifted because the stories, while hard to hear at times, always ended in a way that had a silver lining or a positive takeaway. Has your perspective on youth homelessness changed through this project?  My perspective on youth

health in the Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is a senior advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York and co-director of AIDS-Free World, a new international AIDS advocacy organization based in the United States. His work with the United Nations spanned more than two decades. He was the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from June 2001 until the end of 2006. From 1995 to 1999, Lewis was deputy

, discerning one’s vocation in the world, and service to the advancement of life, health, and wholeness.TicketsFree – $8 Purchase  “What we could not say openly we expressed in music, and what we know as ‘jazz’ is something more than just dance music. When we dance it is not a mere diversion or social accomplishment. It expresses our personality, and, right down in us, our souls react to the elemental but eternal rhythm, and the dance is timeless and unhampered by any linear form.” — Duke Ellington in ‘The

was important to find out who each person was,” Marchenko said. “For me it was getting into a social group, instead of working on my own.” Added Zinnecker: “It just kept getting better and better the more we learned to work together. Now I can say there’s not a group of people I’d rather work together with.” Even if they didn’t win – which everyone insists wouldn’t have been the case – they still would have found the experience itself invaluable. Just getting to know the other five people on the

-jerkers — they were stories of empowerment and optimism. Stories of hope. It reminded me that life hits everyone in different ways. I learned that homelessness comes in many different ways. Lack of social support, financial instability, legal issues. I felt a sense of being uplifted because the stories, while hard to hear at times, always ended in a way that had a silver lining or a positive takeaway. Has your perspective on youth homelessness changed through this project? My perspective on youth

me about ways people perceive and interact with the environment and asked me to critically consider negative social externalities that arise from pollution and other concerns. I really enjoyed these classes but wanted the opportunity to take more math and science courses and ended up shifting the environmental studies degree to a minor and adding a chemistry major. The Hispanic Studies degree was really inspired by my high school Spanish teacher. I took AP Spanish 4 and 5 in high school and loved