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interconnections between religious faith and social justice, human ethics and environmental concerns, scientific data and moral commitments. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists (Georgetown 2017). Students can use gCal to sign up for office hour appointments with this link.

recruiting, advising, accepting and orienting students as well as processing pre-departure paperwork and program evaluations Manages the Program Assistant Staff Development Program Supports the Peace Corps Prep Certificate Program Biography Courtney Olsen (she/her) is the Manager of Short-Term Programs at the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. While an undergraduate at PLU, she studied away in London through GEO and on a PLU J-Term program in Austria, the Czech Republic, and Germany

sought-after chamber musician and teacher, and a gifted composer and arranger. Ms. Fujiwara is Professor of violin and viola at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. She served for many years on the music faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University and is in great demand for master classes and clinics throughout the United States. Korine’s students have been accepted into the performance programs of such institutions as Indiana University, Cincinnati College Conservatory, and Northwestern

promotions. Her paper is published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing, Journal of Advertising Research, and European Journal of Marketing. Dr. Ha works on faculty-student research project with a company in Washington. Her publications and intellectual contributions are used for teaching and research project with students.

Steve Sobeck Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Phone: 253-535-5035 Email: sobecksm@plu.edu Office Location:Ingram Hall - Room 144A Professional Biography Education M.F.A., Pacific Lutheran University, 1972 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Ceramics Accolades 2021 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching Biography Sobeck is a well-known ceramics artist with a following among students who seek him out and collectors hoping to acquire his distinctive work. He has been throwing pots since he was 16. A

as a clinical adjunct faculty member many times in the past. I really enjoy seeing the students learn, grow, and bloom into amazing nurses! I obtained my Associates degree in nursing from Yakima Valley Community College, My BSN from Seattle Pacific University, and my MSN from West Texas A&M University. In my free time I hike, watch my daughter play sports, and travel. In the past few years I have started volunteering with Operation Smile – I have gone on 2 medical missions so far; one to Brazil

interest in environmental health, and my goal of pursuing a doctoral degree in nursing. I enjoy sharing my experience with the nursing students at PLU and hope to promote evidence based, holistic nursing practice. Certifications/Awards Certified Case Manager (CCM), Commission for Case Management Certification Graduate Certificate in Public Health, Washington State University Sigma Theta Tau International, Delta Chi Chapter

-hundred-year-old wheat farm in Nebraska, and the changing role of food, God, science, race and agriculture in society, and was a finalist for the Lukas Prize, awarded by Columbia and Harvard University’s Schools of Journalism.  She lives in San Francisco. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction. Statement:  I think of writing as intimately connected to seeing. I ask myself–and students–“What do you see that other people are missing?” As artists, we want to entertain and we want to be

large, musical family with five siblings, Dr. Anna Jensen was primed to excel at the double bass—while also developing a remarkable capacity for intuiting the needs of diverse learners. She embodies that rare combination of extraordinary musician and dynamic teacher. Her passion for music translates to her deep involvement in education. In addition to instructing at the University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University, she is the Executive Director of the Tacoma Youth Symphony Association

any writing workshop, my goal is to help participants figure out how to engage in a practice, and how to live like writers in a daily and sustaining way. The bracing thrill of sensing a real, live temperament / disposition / sensibility on the page is what I long for (and fall for!) as a reader, and so, as a mentor, I look forward to finding those moments in my students’ work, studying them, marveling at them—and then, working to refine or reposition the whole, in whatever way the poem or essay