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& Communication, PLU Women’s and Gender Studies, PLU School of Business, Tacoma’s Ice Cream Social. Admission: Free and open to the public. The female drumming troupe of Sweet Dreams. Katest was not out of inspired ideas yet: While work shopping one of her plays at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in 2009, Katest met Jennie Dundas, an actor and co-founder of Brooklyn’s Blue Marble Ice Cream. Katest invited Dundas and co-founder Alexis Miesen to come to Rwanda to help the drummers open the country’s first

, demonstrates how racial privilege and culture have shaped the environmental movement in our society. After acting for 11 years and backpacking around the world, Finney was motivated by these experiences to go back to school to complete her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. She has appeared on MSNBC and NPR. Along with public speaking, writing and consulting, she serves as Chair of the Relevancy Committee on the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board. This won’t be her first time at PLU talking about these issues: Finney

Pierce County Building Trades Council. “The Center would be well positioned to help fill that pipeline of skilled workers.” PCAT is led by a 12-person board of directors comprised of executive-level leaders from a wide range of local businesses and organizations including Franklin Pierce Schools, Bank of America, Tacoma Public Utilities and General Plastics. Ongoing consultation and support of PCAT would be provided by the National Center for Arts and Technology (NCAT), a division of Manchester

hatred and prejudice, including direct statements disavowing racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination in law or policy related to sexual orientation or gender identity. In 1993, the ELCA published a call to confront racism, to engage in public leadership and to advocate for justice. In 1994, the ELCA Churchwide Assembly adopted the “Declaration of ELCA to Jewish Community,” which repudiates anti-Judaism and its modern successor, anti-Semitism. A policy resolution, adopted by the Churchwide Assembly

and actions from the eighteenth century onward that illustrate how they have made and continue to maintain the surrounding marine waters as their own.” The cover of "The Sea is my Country" by Joshua L. Reid, published by Yale University Press. PLU History DepartmentLearn more about what the PLU History Department has to offer! The lecture will be on April 17 at 7 p.m. in Xavier 201. Admission is free and open to the public! This lecture is being held amidst many notable anniversaries. 2024 is the

favorite study spots prove that! She enjoys Bryant Park (when it’s sunny out), New York Public Library (lovely painted ceilings, an oasis in the heart of midtown Manhattan) The Poets’ House (a hidden gem—a poetry library that feels like a peaceful living room with a view of the Hudson River), the Dear Mama Coffee House in East Harlem (THE BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES), and Brooklyn College Library (spacious reading rooms). And sometimes she leaves the studying behind and just plays tourist. She’s made

powerlessness through empowerment and community.” Indivisible Gig Harbor is a highly inclusive group and one of its purposes is to guide individuals through this time of political confusion. Professor Albrecht discussed the role of education in that guidance: “We have literacy events, we have candidates come in and speak, and we educate members on how to research voting records for members of Congress. It takes public action to raise awareness.”   Professor Rona Kaufman joined Indivisible Gig Harbor and

. The ancient text contains three-hundred-and-five poems of unknown authorship. Professor Zhu notes, “at that stage in China, the idea of authorship or the idea that someone possessed ownership over a specific poem did not exist.” While this seems quite foreign to a world driven by ownership and copyrights, in pre-modern China, poetry was public domain and for public use. Xi Zhu was born in Ningbo, China, and earned his undergraduate degree in Shanghai. After graduating, he came to the United States

Latino Studies Lecture April 6 | 6:30 p.m. | Xavier 201 Dr. María Chávez, PLU Associate Professor of Politics and Government, will give a lecture titled “The Pioneers: The Role of Public Policies and Mentors for First Generation Latino Professionals.” Inaugural PLU Undergraduate Research Symposium April 8 | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Anderson University Center MORE INFORMATION Hitler’s Pink Victims: Robert Oelbermann and the Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany April 19 | 7:30 p.m. | Anderson University

, know her whole backstory—FlorCruz was sexually assaulted as a 17-year-old college student—because she simply was not ready to tell it. “I wanted to wait until I’d been in this job a while,” FlorCruz said. “I didn’t want the story of SHARP to be about what I’m about—it’s about the victims.” But now, FlorCruz will share her intensely personal story at Pacific Lutheran University on Feb. 17 in a public talk titled “From Victim to Survivor to Leader: Preventing Sexual Assault in the Military and on