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Patrick Gehring AVP for Finance Phone: 253-535-7119 Email: gehrinpd@plu.edu Professional Responsibilities Day-to-day oversight of the work of the Business & Payroll Office Financial Policy and Procedures Management Financial Reporting Budget Development

Beatrice Hawley, and Ohio State University Press awards in poetry.  Recent work appears in Agni, Field, The Georgia Review, Orion, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Essays.  She is Writer in Residence at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and teaches at writing programs around the country, including, most recently, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference.  She lives in Baltimore with her family. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction and poetry. Statement: “In

books of poems by Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda, with whom she shared the 2022 John Frederick Nims Prize for Translation from the Poetry Foundation: In the Belly of Night and Other Poems (Pluralia/Eulalia, 2022) and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater (Deep Vellum, 2024). Her co-translation of How to be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Milkweed, 2024), by Zoque poet Mikeas Sánchez, was called “a significant work in more ways than one” by the New York Times. Wendy has received grants and

Virginia Graves AM Dish Attendant Phone: 253-535-7472 Email: gravesvm@plu.edu Biography Biography Virginia is a 25 plus year veteran with PLU Dining & Culinary Services. She’s enjoyed seeing so many students come and go and through the years she’s done everything from serving them desserts to running the dish room. When she’s not at work, Virginia enjoys her family and dogs.

professional goals, I want you to feel a sense of authority over your work. My reading selections and recommendations will often mirror this philosophy—I enjoy readings that showcase an author’s risks and challenge or subvert commercial expectations. As a workshop leader and mentor, I center collaborative conversations in which you can explain your reasoning and make a case for how you have put together a specific piece of writing. From there, I enjoy asking questions and discussing benefits and

Mary Herstad Data Management Specialist Phone: 253-535-7421 Email: mary.herstad@plu.edu Professional Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Database Management Advancement System Support Responsibilities Mary Herstad began her career at Pacific Lutheran University in November 2016 and serves as the Data Management Specialist. Mary is responsible for maintaining clean and accurate alumni and donor records, which includes supervising the Operations Student Interns who do data entry work.

Riley Stumpf Clinical Instructor of Nursing Email: riley.stumpf@plu.edu Professional Education BSN, Nursing , Cleveland State University, 2016 MPH, Global Health, University of Washington, 2023 DNP, Nursing, University of Washington, 2023 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Labs and Clinicals NURS 316 and NURS403 Selected Presentations Student Outstanding Work Award Candidate APHA, Alternative to discipline as an intervention to address substance use disorder among nurses licensed in Alaska, APHA

. Ditty for Jonathan. Music currently self-published, PDF copies are available by contacting Gina Gillie. Duration: 13 minutes. To the Seasons (2012) for soprano, horn and piano. Four-movement work using poetry of William Blake: I. To Summer, II. To Autumn, III. To Winter, IV. To Spring. Published by RM Williams Publishing. Duration: 20 minutes. The Great Migration (2013) for two horns and piano. Programmatic duet that describes the migratory cycle of wildebeests through Tanzania and Kenya. Published

the full-time research collaborator of Thor Heyerdahl during the last seven years of Heyerdahl’s life including co-directing excavations at the Piramides de Guimar, Tenerife, Canary Islands. * Conducted field work with Hawaiian petroglyphs. * Author of nine books (with translations in German, French, Spanish, Russian, Romanian and Hungarian) including an archaeological memoir (Beneath the Sands of Egypt in German, Im Band der Pharaonen) and a travel guide to pharaonic Egypt (Ancient Egypt on Five

Oklahoma. She lives in San Francisco. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement:  “Poetry can expand, challenge, and deepen our ways of knowing. Adrienne Rich wrote: “Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.” I believe my work with you is only to serve as a guide, to encourage you towards what you don’t know you know, and to inspire you to grow deeper into your potential as a writer. Poetry is especially vital in today’s world; my teaching work is to challenge you