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History at PLU, as well as classes on innovation and the history of technology. His most recent books are This Little World: A How-to Guide for Social Innovators (2024), co-authored with Shelly Cano Kurtz, and Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America (2020). Both projects offer a “behind-the-scenes” look at digital transformation in American society and its potential for positive social change. Prof. Halvorson is also interested in oral history and its use in

Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony, Oakland Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, Modesto Symphony and more. She is an educator at Pacific Lutheran University and the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Marrowstone Music Festival. She has performed with the prestigious Aspen Summer Music Festival’s various orchestras, and was showcased in concert with The Lancaster Festival as a Wilkes Fellow. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, painting, and training her cats to use “talking” buttons.

process, treating each draft as a space for experimentation, for excess, and for bold choices they might otherwise never make.In the creative writing classroom, I aim to rethink and decenter traditional approaches to the workshop, which structurally privilege a small set of identities and formal approaches. Integrating critical interventions by Arielle Greenberg and Felicia Rose Chavez, I use an alternative workshop pedagogy that engages each writer in shaping the structure of the workshop. This

about immigration detention, community-based alternatives, and mobilizing collective action to support more humane migration management methods. The unifying thread that runs through my research is a commitment to an ongoing interrogation and critique of immigration controls and enforcement, the increasing intertwinement with the criminal legal system, and the (over)use of human confinement in civil immigration matters. Underlying this critical engagement is an aim to cultivate the development of

able to critically examine information they encounter after they leave college and to use their education to formulate thoughtful opinions, make informed decisions and be productive citizens in the future.

Priscilla A. St. Clair Professor of Economics Email: stclaipa@plu.edu Status:Emeritus Professional Education Ph.D., University of Washington, 1995 B.A., Wake Forest University, 1988 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Development Economics Environmental Economics Intermediate Microeconomics Community forest management Household energy use in developing countries

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. Williams has published articles on working effectively with E/BD students, and has developed a social/behavioral curriculum for use in classrooms that serve these students that has been adopted in six school districts in the State of Washington. He is also active in presenting at numerous conferences both regionally and nationally, and consults with a number of regional LEAs on program development in special education. Dr. Williams is currently project director for a State of Washington grant for the

of 2020 Lute, who started learning and loving art and technology as a toddler. After numerous Marketing and Graphic Design courses in high school, they joined PLU in 2016 as a major in Business Administration, eventually concentrating in Marketing. JB graduated in 2020 with two Bachelor’s degrees, in both Business Administration and Religion. JB is very excited to be back at PLU to use their unique skills and experience with both Multimedia Production and Technology to provide valuable on-site

Fiona O’Farrell Dept. Chair and Program Director of Marriage and Family Therapy they/she Phone: 253-535-8802 Email: ofarrefe@plu.edu Office Location:Garfield Station - Room 108 Status:Not Teaching Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Clinical Sexology, Modern Sex Therapy Institutes , 2023 M.A., Marriage and Family Therapy, Pacific Lutheran University, 2012 B.A., Psychology, Western University , 2008 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Use of consent-based frameworks to support training standards