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during her junior and senior years after serving as Resident Assistant (RA) in the Spanish Wing in Kreidler. Part of the draw to becoming an RA was that Ash knew she could connect with the Hispanic community in new ways. This wasn’t just about service; it was also about exploring her own identity as a Mexican American and understanding more fully the issues impacting minority students. This experience launched her into becoming student body president, where she was a champion for change on campus
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school to be a pediatrician. That all began to change my first semester when I took a class about Race and Identity in the US. Because of that class, I combined my newfound awareness of social justice issues with my initial curiosity in medicine. From there, I became more interested in the accessibility of medicine for underserved communities and how research can have such a significant influence in healthcare policy reform. After PLU, I’m planning to get a Master’s in Public Health concentrating in
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talk about their own — and not just their own identity, but the world in which they were finding themselves, and also gave them a little glimpse into the kind of activism that students could [use to] figure out mechanisms and models and histories to go about making change beyond a sort of like micro level of a student group,” he said. Brian described his time at PLU as a heyday for novel queer and gay visibility, at least in many respects. He said there were definitely instances of homophobic
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episode 1 LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (search under faith for a particular denomination) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day SaintsInformational Resources: Stances of Faith on LGBTQ Issues: LDS Church Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons Families and Friends Interview with Mitch Mayne, an openly gay Mormon Stories by Queer LDS Members: Affirmation Stories for Sexual Orientation and gender identity Singing Loud and Proud: Choir for LGBT Mormons Breaks Out The Paradox of Being Gay and Mormon
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interested in all aspects of German cultural and history. Her research and publications are focused on the role of the artist in public discourse in East and West Germany, as well as 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. PLU Faculty ProfileIn addition to teaching on topics such as gender issues, identity, and memory in modern and contemporary art, Heather is
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her junior and senior years after serving as Resident Assistant (RA) in the Spanish Wing in Kreidler. Part of the draw to becoming an RA was that Ash knew she could connect with the Hispanic community in new ways. This wasn’t just about service; it was also about exploring her own identity as a Mexican American and understanding more fully the issues impacting minority students. This experience launched her into becoming student body president, where she was a champion for change on campus
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– faculty and staff included – has a common starting point where they can begin to talk about their lives, their own identity, and the many different lenses through which we perceive life. That was Dufault’s experience. “Everyone had a different take on the book, so it was very interesting to see how other people think and how they see the same thing differently,” he said. — To read about Luis Alberto Urrea’s visit to campus last year, click here. To read a profile of Assistant Professor of English
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community. We also think she will be an effective partner with faculty and staff to provide learning opportunities around questions of identity, vocation, faith formation, justice and other topics relevant to PLU’s mission of educating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care,” he said. “We look forward to welcoming Jen to PLU and supporting her and her staff as she builds a campus ministry that is diverse, engaging, nourishing, at times challenging, and worthy of the
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her junior and senior years after serving as Resident Assistant (RA) in the Spanish Wing in Kreidler. Part of the draw to becoming an RA was that Ash knew she could connect with the Hispanic community in new ways. This wasn’t just about service; it was also about exploring her own identity as a Mexican American and understanding more fully the issues impacting minority students. This experience launched her into becoming student body president, where she was a champion for change on campus
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migrating, and consequently Mexican citizens can be deported based on assumptions about their identity: this occurred when three Tzetltal indigenous women were detained by Mexican border patrol agents based on the assumption that they were migrants from Central America entering the country illegally, even though they were from Mexico. This was an eye-opening presentation that I still think of constantly because it was a moment where the breadth of migration and its nature as a global phenomenon hit me
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