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Zachary Lyman Professor of Music - Trumpet; Coordinator of Wind, Brass, and Percussion Studies Phone: 253-535-7612 Email: lymanzt@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 113 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Website: https://www.plu.edu/trumpet Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Director of the PLU Trumpet Ensemble Music Theory and Analysis II and III Education D.M.A., Trumpet Performance and Pedagogy, The University of Iowa, 2007 M.M. with

Rebecca Rumpza Director for Campus Life Operations she/her Phone: 253-535-7655 Email: rumpzari@plu.edu Office Location:Anderson University Center - Room 166 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Professional Biography Education Studies in Music Education, University of Puget Sound Responsibilities Campus Life Responsibilities Direction and overview for budget and purchase protocols Review Residency Requirement and Exemption Requests Coordinate housing accessibility and

strategies focused on undergraduate student success, including the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Student Success essay; First Year Experience signature programs, including MOVE (Mountains Oceans Valley Experience), which received the 2012 NASPA National Gold award; and the Retention Action Network. In 2013, Dr. Royce-Davis received the Podesto Award for Excellence in Student Life, Mentoring, and Counseling, and in 2012 she was awarded the Cavanaugh Distinguished Service Award from the

& Special Collections) with 12 staff and 5 faculty members.  Oversee a $1.8 million budget. Work collaboratively with library faculty and staff, the Provost, and others across PLU to enhance library resources and services in support of students, faculty, and the mission of the University. Collection development subject areas: Global Studies, Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Native American & Indigenous Studies, Publishing and Printing. Library leadership and administration, and library technical support

Cosette Pfaff, M.S. Visiting Professor Phone: 253-535-7244 Email: pfaffcm@plu.edu Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Biography Biography Cosette Pfaff brings 25+ years of business practitioner experience, working on both the revenue generating and operational side of business and has a passion for growing healthy organizations. She specializes in performance coaching and training with individuals and teams in the areas of revenue generation, customer service/retention strategies, interpersonal

Preparation (NGSTP) in Washington State] to improve STEM teacher preparation and increase recruitment and retention of quality diverse teacher candidates, and she is the PLU Implementation Team Lead. As a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) since 2002, she combines 31 years of teaching and leading in Washington State with years of designing and facilitating university and K-12 traditional and hybrid professional development programs. She has been a peer-mentor, instructional coach, and teacher for

Brenda Miller Nonfiction Website: http://www.brendamillerwriter.com/ Biography Biography Brenda Miller edited the anthology The Next Draft: Inspiring Craft Talks from the Rainier Writing Workshop. Her most recent collection of her own work is A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form. She is the author of five more essay collections, including An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir, and she is the recipient of six Pushcart Prizes. Her book of collaborative

on the exhibition of contemporary art as a cultural and political force in the Cold War era and today. Her most recent work deals with contemporary art and cultural integration. In addition to teaching on topics such as gender issues, identity, and memory in modern and contemporary art, Heather is Coordinator of the University Gallery (including the University Gallery Annex and the Karen Hille Phillips Gallery) and manages the University’s Permanent Art Collection. Students may request a meeting

Heather Mathews Chair & Associate Professor of Art History Phone: 253-535-7574 Email: hmathews@plu.edu Office Location: Ingram Hall - 110 Website: https://tinyurl.com/mu26jt7z Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Chair of Communication, Media & Design Arts, Associate Professor of Art History University Gallery Coordinator Education Ph.D., Art History, University of Texas, Austin, 2006 M.A., University of Texas, Austin, 1997 B.A., Art History and German, Hood College, Frederick, MD

Renee Simms Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Renee Simms, J.D., MFA, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a John Gardner Fiction Fellowship at Bread Loaf, and fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. She’s an associate professor of African American Studies at University of Puget Sound and teaches with the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran’s low-residency MFA program. Her debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword