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--Editor of ResoLute Magazine and Director of Communications at Pacific Lutheran University
--MFA (Creative Nonfiction) student at the Rainier Writers Workshop
--Former freelance contributor to the Weekly Volcano, Tacoma Weekly, Anchorage Daily News, South Sound Magazine, Post Defiance, and others.
The small group of Pacific Lutheran University students, standing huddled together in a jam-packed section toward the front of the National Mall, remained silent.
It was a rainy Tuesday in January 2007 and Korbett Mosesly '11, MPA '17 had a decision to make. In the morning, the youngest of his three sons, Andre, was having a kidney removed. That evening, he was scheduled to attend his first class at Evergreen-Tacoma.
Professor of Psychology Wendelyn Shore is passionate about mentorship — not just mentoring and being mentored but also the scholarly pursuit of deconstructing and analyzing the ethics of mentorships.
Kate Monthy ’04 and Dmitry Mikheyev ’10 are, among many things, performers. Monthy graces audiences as an accomplished ballet dancer and choreographer. Mikheyev, also known as Dominique D’Amour and Mylo Precious, dazzles in drag and burlesque shows around the Pacific Northwest.
Throughout two years living together, David and I spent countless hours discussing topics typical of college students: politics, religion, dating, etc. Our conversations were open, honest and even chippy at times. But it wasn't until he was featured in the spring 2010 issue of PLU's Scene magazine (now ResoLute) that I knew any details of his personal journey.
Some recent spring-cleaning found my Washington United for Marriage yard sign mangled and waterlogged under my front porch. The bright green and white lettering had worn and by the looks of it you might think that it was five years ago, not five months ago, that Washington voters made history by becoming the first ever to make marriage equality law by popular vote.
Harold Moss knows a thing or two about perseverance. Tacoma's first African-American Mayor and City Council member and the first African-American elected to the Pierce County Council, Moss began working with the Tacoma chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s, served on Tacoma's First Human Relations Commission (now the Human Rights Commission), and in 1968 helped create the Tacoma Urban League.
Andrew Austin '06 returned to the city and the organization that collectively helped foster the ascent of his professional and personal vocation. Thankful to have had the opportunity to lead transit-advocacy efforts all over the country, Austin is now back in his element in Tacoma, advocating, organizing and educating on behalf of the issue in the state he loves.
With the release of their new album, I ♥ America, local hip-hop artists The Breaklites have captured and revitalized something essential about alternative rap. To articulate just what that "something" is - to define it for myself - I had to find context.
This year's legislative session yielded more bad news than good. Washington's current budget is running on the tax income collected at the height of the recession, and therefore lawmakers simply didn't have much money to work with.
If you've driven down the 900 block of Market Street in the past couple of months, you have probably noticed the spectacular new mural on the side of the Rialto Theater.
Earlier this week Washington United for Marriage, a statewide campaign leading the effort to lobby in support of marriage equality, celebrated the completion of the first half of its mission when Governor Gregoire signed legislation passing same-sex marriage into law. Over the past three months Washington United has directed and equipped advocacy efforts in communities all over the state.
From Jay-Z to Tupac to Kanye West, hip-hop's most beloved emcees have found a balance addressing their hardships while maintaining a high level of charisma and charm.
Jehane Noujaim has received seemingly every illustrious award and accolade available to an independent filmmaker. The Harvard graduate's documentaries have earned top honors at many of the world's most prestigious international film festivals, including Sundance, Full Frame, Berlin, Sydney and Toronto.
For the eighth straight year musicians gathered in Sitka in the last weekend of July to spend a summer weekend singing, strumming, rapping, and otherwise music-making for the residents of one of Alaska's most picturesque coastal communities.