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through innovative voter-outreach efforts and community organizing.What motivates you most about your current role? What motivates me the most are the people that make it happen — the volunteers who show up on a Saturday and give a few hours to knock on doors and talk to their neighbors about why a candidate is the best choice for office; students marching in the street for climate action in record numbers around the world; or the first-time candidates, particularly people of color and women, who are

within each of these different specialties that I’m experiencing. I think this will help me figure out which one is going to fit the best. I’m discovering that I enjoy working with women, and I’ve also enjoyed my general surgery rotation. I’m on my obstetrics and gynecology rotation now, and I’ve really enjoyed procedural aspects of care. That’s pushing me into a direction of something that has clinic and procedure options. By the beginning of next year I’ll start narrowing things down. Shelby Hatton

lot. The study away program was one of the main things that drew me to PLU. I studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico and completed an internship at a rural development organization that was working in conflict resolution and on programs empowering women in rural communities. Speaking of internships, your resume is jam-packed with them. Is there a first internship that stands out to you as representing the beginning of your professional journey? It wasn’t exactly an internship, but actually a really cool

the Arts and Culture editor, Mike Bookey; the Listings editor, Chey Scott; and most of the staff writers. I’ve also had the pleasure of working with their nationally recognized art director, Chris Bovey, and the paper’s editor, Jacob H. Fries, who is a former New York Times reporter. What sorts of tasks and projects do you work on at The Inlander? It’s a pretty broad selection of tasks – some days I’m doing really basic journalism internship tasks like finding images or fact-checking lists. The

, said she took Kraig’s course because it offered a contemporary look at longstanding racial issues. “We fool ourselves thinking that racism is no longer in existence,” said Morales, who learned different ways to be an activist in the course. Stringer, a senior, said she realized that she was ignorant to racial issues as a privileged white woman before enrolling in the J-Term course. “I wanted to learn some facts to talk about it with my family,” she said. Students’ final performances ranged from

Institute, The National Museum of Women in the Arts and the PLU University Special Collections. The Seattle Art Museum Gallery shows my work locally. Why did you want to teach at PLU? I love teaching in small liberal arts schools, it was near my family, and it felt like a circle that needed to be completed. What is your favorite class to teach and why? Picking a favorite class is like picking your favorite child isn’t it? No one wants to admit they do that… My favorite is probably the Capstone series

, I really love the team,” Klauder said, noting that she is one of six seniors who are wrapping up four-year stints with the swimming program. Five of those seniors are women. “I have some really close friends, and I’m always going to have that,” she said. And she’ll also have the memories of a month spent studying in China. Read Previous Karen Hille Phillips Read Next Prayer Possible COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled

of teams as an assistant coach, and I just got it,” Croft said. “Everything clicked: This is what needs to happen.” And then came another of those life-defining decisions. In 2010, Croft met Tafara Pulse, who is now his wife. “She plays for the Seattle Sounders Women and is in the Seattle University Hall of Fame,” Croft said. “She was my biggest push to get back into it. She really saw how good I was, and I believed her.” Croft works with children in Uganda as part of PlayUp, his former nonprofit

research, as the speaker for Pacific Lutheran University’s 41st Annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, part of PLU’s Spring Spotlight Series, “… and Justice for All?” Jacobs’ presentation at PLU will recount both the trauma and resilience of indigenous women and families as they struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the Indian Child Welfare Act in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies and redress in Australia and Canada. “I first became

alongside 37 other people. Every piece of Florida data that lurches adds to the growing suspicion that this will be a long and uncertain night. I told my team during the car ride to the station that there’s a strong chance Clinton could win the election. The Times’ forecasting tool predicting a President-elect Clinton has fallen from its initial 92 percent to about 77, as of the latest Florida and Ohio returns at 8:48. I know what I plan to write for a Clinton victory — I’ll ask women in the office