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COVID, she didn’t have nearly enough to meet demand. “While I’m in a resource-rich county, we only have a limited number of housing vouchers and affordable housing supply,” she says. Back in King County, Bellwether Housing is working to meet the community’s need for housing for low-income households. Led by Boyd, the organization currently serves over 3,500 Seattle area residents in 2,100 homes and has over 1,000 additional homes in development. By locating its housing communities near transit

things I enjoy, like seeing friends or having time to myself in my room to watch tv, just having time set aside for normal hobbies. That has helped a lot. Also, I keep a routine schedule so I stay on track with work and school. How is your capstone on autonomous cars going? We are making an autonomous RC car. It uses sensors to know its location. Our process started last year. I started work with Professor Caley early in order to get more done. Over the summer, my partner on the project and I worked

writing when he was forced to attend a poetry reading for one of his classes. He said PLU’s Visiting Writer Series, which is currently in its sixth year, can help students discover similar hidden passions. “It expands [students’] sense of what the world is about,” Barot said. “It introduces possibilities within yourself.” The Visiting Writer Series is an annual speaker series that welcomes accomplished writers, authors and poets to campus. It gives students the opportunity to experience the writers

this,” he said. “They deserve a lot of praise in this.” It’s an impressive feat for Africa’s largest country, Vraalsen said. (Sudan is 728,211 square miles with 40 million people).“It’s now that the hard and difficult work starts,” he said. By July 9, when the CPA expires, the north and south must figure out how to address issues of dividing wealth (and debt), providing security and sorting out citizenship. The north has been heavily dependent on southern oil reserves and the functionality of its

the county party write its platform, before participating in the congressional district caucus. He ran for one of five available slots there and was elected as a delegate for Sanders, which involved working with other delegates to incorporate the candidate’s policies into the PCD platform. "Your voice means the world to them. …Older people bring the structure, but young people bring the hope and the change."- Austin Beiermann '18 “It was wild. I stood up, and gave a speech, and it was really

think there is wisdom in the phrase ‘We are all in this together,’” he said. Gates praised PLU for its global focus, and indicated the university was a leader in the general trend in the U.S. to look outward to solve issues such as hunger, HIV or global warming. It’s important for students to travel overseas, rather than just read about a place on a map, he said. “Once you’re there,” he said. “You see we’re all the same, and that has a significant influence on global equity.” It’s significant that

, then he heard about the second plane. He hopped on one of the last trains to make it near Ground Zero and was near the centers as the first tower imploded and fell. He watched as people, including the mayor and his entourage, flee from the dust cloud, “Their command center had been destroyed,” he said. People opened up shops to get their colleagues out of the dust, and offered up water and food free of charge. “I saw New York at its best,” he said. He was soon asked to have his agency lead the

universities across the U.S. Eight Namibians who were part of this sponsored program graduated from PLU. Laura Sorgenfrei ’08 with her grade 1 support class at Van Rhyn Elementary in Windhoek, Namibia. In the years since, this history of educational exchange has continued via USAID grant-supported teacher development programs, study away programs and Fulbright scholarships. Yet the Uukumwe Project is unique—not only for its focus on teachers, rather than students, but also because for every American

6 Ensembles, 3 Clubs, 2 Directorships, 1 Stellar Scholar Posted by: Silong Chhun / March 14, 2022 March 14, 2022 By Teddy WingoPLU Office of AdvancementWhen Kaila Harris ’24 received her PLU acceptance letter, it was a special moment for her and her family. Upon its arrival, Kaila read the letter, which included the contents of her financial aid package, aloud to her parents.“When I finished, my dad stood up, gave me one of the tightest hugs I’ve had from him in my life, told me he was proud of