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Welcome Back from Women’s and Gender Studies Thursday, Oct. 10 3:30-4:30 p.m. Women’s and Gender Education Center, MON 207 We hope you will join Women’s and Gender Studies’ core faculty and staff, our affiliated faculty, and our students as we reveal some exciting developments in our program. We will also enjoy refreshments. Refreshments and mingling are…

Resisting la Migra/ICE Abigail Scholar Executive Director, Central Washington Justice For Our Neighbors Thursday, Nov. 21 Noon to 1 p.m., Multicultural Center, PUB 329 Abigail has been the Executive Director of Central Washington Justice For Our Neighbors since early 2018. She serves on the coordinating committee of the Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition. She is…

Women’s and Gender Studies presents for Fall 2019 Contemporary Issues in Feminist Research: featuring faculty and staff presenting research in their disciplines from a feminist perspective. Embodiment, Empowerment, and Community: Feminist Pedagogy for Inclusive Teaching and Learning Tuesday, Oct. 8 Noon to 12:50, 207 Monroe Hall This research explores the use of Feminist Pedagogy as…

Women and Gender Studies professor Judy Rohrer discusses what she learned from working with Al Otro Lado (AOL), a bi-national non-profit.

Music Technology and Entrepreneurship Major – Mixing Music, Engineering and Design, and Entrepreneurship The Eastern Washington University Music Department is excited to announce that they are offering a B.A. in Music Technology and Entrepreneurship this fall. The degree is designed to provide professional training for students who aim to succeed as creative entrepreneurs, performers, songwriters,…

2019 Get Lit! Programs Celebrate 21 Years. Get Lit! Programs celebrated its 21st year this April with dozens of events, outstanding authors, festival-inspired food and drink, and our second annual book fair at the Montvale Event Center. We presented events throughout downtown Spokane, Coeur D’Alene, and on Eastern’s campuses in both Cheney and Spokane. We…

Adam Walsh is an Assistant Professor in the Languages and Humanities Department of the Northern Marianas College (NMC), located in Micronesia. He has been teaching on the island of Saipan since 2010 with a brief stint in Japan. His poetry appears in The Journal, the Hawaii Review, Barrow Street, The Istanbul Review, BlazeVOX, Shark Reef, the Lummox Journal, and Crab Creek…

Frances B. Huston Award Winners Every year, each of CALE’s seven departments chooses a student to receive the Frances B. Huston Medallion. This award recognizes graduating seniors who have achieved academic excellence with a 3.75 or higher GPA and who have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities at Eastern and/or in the community. These are the Huston…

Kate Peterson earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University in Spokane, where she now works as the director of Get Lit! Programs. Her poetry and prose has been published in Glassworks, The Sierra Nevada Review, Barnstorm, Sugar House Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Aethlon, Packingtown Review, among others. Her chapbook Grist won the 2016 Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize and was published in October, 2016. Learn…

Gabrielle “Rie” Lee is a California-based writer and editor. She has a BFA in Dance Choreography and a BA in English from the UC Irvine, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University. She loves pizza, is BFFs with The Chicago Manual of Style, and has a mild case of hyphenitis. Serving as Managing Editor for Willow…