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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

. “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 + Service in the

students, faculty, and staff to learn together in community and as a part of the University’s mission of care and investment in the success of all learners. Dates: More dates upcoming in Fall 2017 Place: Chris Knutzen East in the Anderson University Center Listen to the conversation View the videos Listening Microaggressions Classroom Belonging Learn more about Listen in ResoLute The fall 2016 issue of ResoLute, which highlights the core tenets of Lutheran higher education, offers a deeper look at the

motivated himself to earn his diploma from Lincoln High School and pursue a degree in English from Pacific Lutheran University. After graduating from PLU in 2008, Cushman jumped into being a teacher and mentor for students with stories similar to his own. As an English teacher and coach at his high school alma mater, Cushman strives to show love, compassion and care to students who might otherwise never receive them. He believes that adults are responsible for helping kids discover their own potential

to build solidarity between previously siloed groups. While interning at a trans-centric community health center, I observed two strategies used to enable trans* ways of being: non-profits and mutual aid. This observation has led me to wonder whether non-profits or mutual aid systems offer the most comprehensive ways of encouraging trans* ways of being. In exploring this question, I have examined theoretical texts, the majority of which utilize gender, sexuality, and race studies lenses, and

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