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, fellowships, and internships to students pursuing fields of study related to the environment or Native American nations. Knapp has served as a G.R.E.A.N. club officer, is currently co-chair of the Student Sustainability Committee, and is a leader of the Tacoma hub of the Sunrise Movement of young people fighting for intersectional environmental justice. She is also the incoming ASPLU Environmental Justice Director. We spoke with Knapp on her award, the opportunity it provides her, and her goals for the

, Wold’s longtime friend and college roommate. “It’s a gift.” Currently, Wold is part of NASA’s research division and works with the Federal Aviation Administration to facilitate the movement of planes through the airspace system. Following the Challenger and Columbia disasters, there was a spike in security measures at NASA, and particularly in Wold’s division. As a result, Wold has been much more involved with the research side of NASA and keeping track of expenditures of government money for various

, 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

most intimate moments of a selection.” This year’s Christmas Concerts will be the exclusive world premiere of prolific Hollywood film composer J.A.C. Redford’s A Christmas Invitation, a three-movement work composed especially for PLU’s world-renowned Choir of the West, University Chorale and University Symphony Orchestra. Redford has written scores for nearly 100 feature films, TV movies and television programs. His film compositions include Disney’s Oliver and Company (1988), Newsies (1992) and

underlying concepts, like showing musical expression through movement. She also played a video of Dr. T. André Feagin, director of bands in the department of music at Central Washington University, conducting an ensemble. “I wanted to show them someone who looks like them doing a job that they could never have thought of having access to,” Delos Reyes says. Though the video is five minutes long, “They were in a trance. The whole time they were just staring right at him and just saying, ‘Teacher, he looks

PLU students. × “You could say that the entire reason I’m here is because of her.” Professor Brown describes himself as a big horror movie fan and recently co-wrote (with Matthew Anderson, MA, from the University of Austin at Texas) an academic article on religious narratives in Ghostbusters (1984). As Professor Brown explains, you can go through the spiritualist literature of the 19th and 20th century and find five prevailing views/opinions on the spiritualist movement. “We basically analyze

creation of Indivisible, a grassroots and non-partisan political group dedicated to that resistance. Three PLU English faculty on sabbatical last year dedicated their time to activism, joining the Indivisible movement. Professor Lisa Marcus and Professor James Albrecht were part of an organizing team that created a branch of Indivisible in their hometown of Gig Harbor, and Professor Rona Kaufman became an active member of the group. Professor Lisa Marcus says she was “horrified” when Donald Trump was