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dictates an innumerable quantity of injustices for those, who like me, that have no choice but to embrace them and do their best despite it all. I graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in May 2014 with a Hispanic Studies major and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. As of now, I volunteer as a member of the Community Advisory Board with the Forest Grove School-Based Health Center and am a member of the Forest Grove Police Department’s Citizens Academy. I work as a freelance Spanish Translator

dictates an innumerable quantity of injustices for those, who like me, that have no choice but to embrace them and do their best despite it all. I graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in May 2014 with a Hispanic Studies major and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. As of now, I volunteer as a member of the Community Advisory Board with the Forest Grove School-Based Health Center and am a member of the Forest Grove Police Department’s Citizens Academy. I work as a freelance Spanish Translator

dictates an innumerable quantity of injustices for those, who like me, that have no choice but to embrace them and do their best despite it all. I graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in May 2014 with a Hispanic Studies major and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. As of now, I volunteer as a member of the Community Advisory Board with the Forest Grove School-Based Health Center and am a member of the Forest Grove Police Department’s Citizens Academy. I work as a freelance Spanish Translator

dictates an innumerable quantity of injustices for those, who like me, that have no choice but to embrace them and do their best despite it all. I graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in May 2014 with a Hispanic Studies major and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. As of now, I volunteer as a member of the Community Advisory Board with the Forest Grove School-Based Health Center and am a member of the Forest Grove Police Department’s Citizens Academy. I work as a freelance Spanish Translator

dictates an innumerable quantity of injustices for those, who like me, that have no choice but to embrace them and do their best despite it all. I graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in May 2014 with a Hispanic Studies major and a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. As of now, I volunteer as a member of the Community Advisory Board with the Forest Grove School-Based Health Center and am a member of the Forest Grove Police Department’s Citizens Academy. I work as a freelance Spanish Translator

executive director of Missoula Medical Aid, which leads groups of medical professionals to provide public health and surgery services in Honduras. In Missoula he has worked with the Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop. For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin.Jenny JohnsonJenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet, published by Sarabande Books in

Traveler. For 18 years, Cates was the executive director of Missoula Medical Aid, a non-profit that provides public health and surgery services in Honduras. In Missoula he has worked with the Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop. For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin.Kent MeyersKent Meyers is the author of a memoir, a book of short fiction, and

encounter daily in class and in the PLU community. Getting a group together last spring for “Carry That Weight” was incredibly moving and really showed me the amount of commitment and care this community has for the feminist movement. (The event was spurred by Emma Sulkowicz’s performance art piece at Columbia University where she vowed to carry a mattress until her rapist was expelled or left the university. Sulkowicz carried the mattress until the end of the year, including at her graduation ceremony

UCLA or anywhere in the world. But it is our story — a PLU story. Maybe someone in your circle has such a story. Ask them. And if they do, ask them to tell it. Stories such as ours, and hopefully such as yours, are important — memories are sometimes all we have left of each other. One of my favorite memories is of the last time the four of us visited Doug in his room at a memory care facility. Hanging on the wall were pictures of his children, his medical degree, and a photograph of the five of us

continues at PLU. “We’re looking at education holistically,” Trelstad says. To do that, stewards at the university must understand the need to hear, heed and honor all voices in the community. An instance of this, Trelstad says, is the way that Lutheran higher education helps people think about religion. Core Elements in Lutheran Higher Education+ Critical questioning + Freedom of expression + Commitment to the liberal arts + Learning in community + Care for creation + Discernment of one’s vocation