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undergraduate program in the PLU Education Department since 2003. With expertise in the areas of curriculum and instruction, Dr. Weiss works closely with students in the field. She also collaborates with the Clover Park School district planning, facilitating and teaching their Mentor College and beginning teacher program. Dr. Weiss also works with teachers in a local alternative high school as a facilitator for a Positive Behavior Support grant from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Dr

, donor relations and constituent engagement executive, Dan set the strategic direction of all external-facing efforts and guided LWR through three years of record-setting growth. Prior to his role as Vice President, Dan led LWR’s annual giving program and spearheaded the first comprehensive re-branding and website redevelopment process in more than 10 years. As Senior Director of Marketing for LWR, Dan implemented numerous fundraising and communications initiatives, including the creation of LWR’s

Barry Johnson Associate Professor of Music - Voice Phone: 253-535-7625 Email: johnsobw@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 341 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Co-Director of Opera Production/Workshop Director of Knights Chorus Education M.M., Music/Vocal Performance and Pedagogy, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1989 B.M., Music/Choral Education, University of Arizona, 1985 Responsibilities Teaches Applied

Amy Stewart-Mailhiot, MLIS Undergraduate Program Director Phone: 253-535-7224 Email: stewarae@plu.edu

countries, serving more than 7 million people. As the chief fundraising, donor relations and constituent engagement executive, Dan set the strategic direction of all external-facing efforts and guided LWR through three years of record-setting growth. Prior to his role as Vice President, Dan led LWR’s annual giving program and spearheaded the first comprehensive re-branding and website redevelopment process in more than 10 years. As Senior Director of Marketing for LWR, Dan implemented numerous

Sarah Beal Program and Internship Placement Coordinator Phone: 253-535-7050 Email: leitzise@plu.edu Office Location:Olson Auditorium - Room 101-C

Stan Sanvel Rubin Founding Director Biography Biography Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU.  He served for over twenty years as Director of the Brockport Writers Forum and Videotape Library (SUNY), a multi-faceted literary arts program.  He holds the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.  His most recent book of poetry is There. Here. (Lost Horse Press, 2013).  Other books include The Post-Confessionals, a collection of his interviews

Miho Takekawa Lecturer - Percussion Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: takekama@plu.edu Office Location:Mary Baker Russell Music Center - Room 323 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education D.M.A., Percussion Performance, University of Washington M.M., University of Washington M.Ed., Kunitachi School of Music, Tokyo B.M., Kunitachi School of Music, Tokyo Responsibilities Applied Percussion Lessons, Directs Steel Pan Ensemble and Percussion Ensemble Biography Dr

for Edmonds Community College, Olympic College, Oregon State University, the University of Maryland-University College (Europe), the American University in Bulgaria, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia, a regional business education program in Northern France, and the master’s in public administration program at Evergreen State College. He is sole author of 13 books (including follow-on editions), coauthor of two others, and author or joint author of nearly 100 research papers

Connecticut District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, was a finalist in the Palm Beach Opera Competition, completed fellowships at the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and the Britten-Pears Programme in England, and is a graduate of the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program and the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College. She is a passionate teacher and an active member of The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), where she serves on the board of