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From: <\/strong>“Williamson, Elizabeth” <williame@evergreen.edu>
Date: <\/strong>Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 4:37 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear\ncolleagues,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe middle of this light-starved season, I\u2019m delighted to share with you some\nof the radiant achievements of our Tacoma colleagues. I will make sure that\nthese are archived on the web ASAP, but I didn\u2019t want to wait any longer to\nshare them with you. Our next edition of Faculty Notes will feature the Native\nPathways Program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Warmly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \n Elizabeth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tacoma Faculty & Staff Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trey Appelgate\n(he\/him)<\/strong> finished his BA\nwith Evergreen Tacoma in 2020 and was part of the team that assisted with\nfaculty and students\u2019 transition to the new remote learning environment. Some\nnotable remote events he supported were a conversation with the Dalai Lama, the\nreimagined Tacoma Spring Fair event, a conversation with Maseno University in\nKenya, and the Tacoma Virtual Graduation Ceremony. He is currently working to\narchive our digital presence and create content for the future of the Tacoma\ncampus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Tate Arunga (she\/her)<\/strong> published a chapter in the\nanthology entitled, They Will Lead Africa<\/em>, second edition. Her book, The\nStolen Ones and How They Were Missed <\/em>(2017), was produced as a short film\nby world-renowned cultural worker Mama Charlotte Oneal, entitled WARAJEAJI:\nThe Stolen Ones Returned<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Dr.\nTate Arunga was honored in 2020 with the Bethune \/ Nzinga Community Achievement\nAward, by Summit Sierra High School Black Student Union. And Dr. Tate Arunga\nserved on the OSPI African American Curriculum Task Force in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter\nBacho (he\/him)<\/strong> has been working with the University\nof Washington Press on his mini-memoir collection in progress, Mostly True Stories: A Love Note to Seattle\nand to a Filipino Community that No Longer Exists<\/em>. Earlier this month the collections editor\nat the UW Press sent Mostly True Stories<\/em> out for artistic review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marla German (she\/her) <\/strong>When not helping faculty and\nstudents in her role as Program Secretary on the Tacoma Campus, Marla enjoys\nbeing creative. You can see a variety of her work (and some gratuitous cat\nphotos) at www.instagram.com\/marlagerman<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Besides teaching at Evergreen-Tacoma, Dr.\nMingxia Li<\/strong> (the poet, librettist and translator Zhang Er, All Pronouns<\/strong>)\nsaw her 3rd\npoetry collection<\/a> in English translation published by Zephyr Press. The\nbook, titled First Mountain<\/em>, was written in collaboration with American\npoet and Professor of Practice Joseph Donahue of Duke University. She co-edited\nand participated in the translation of The\nArt of Women in Contemporary China: Both Sides Now<\/a><\/em> with Patricia\nEichenbaum Karetzky, Oskar Munsterberg Chair of Asian Art at Bard College. At\nthe \u201c& Now Points of Convergence\u201d conference, an annual event hosted by\nUniversity of Washington-Bothell (2019), she presented one of her new operatic\nlibretti, Fantasia Verde,<\/em> with Jonathan Balsley (Evergreen student) and\nAndrew Buchman (Evergreen faculty). She also participated in a panel, \u201cBeyond\nReturn: Translation, Diaspora, and the Poetics and Politics of Origin\u201d with\nQuenton Baker, and Susan Gevirtz at the same conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She continued her collaboration with Prof.\nGregory Youtz of Pacific Lutheran University in completing their opera Tacoma\nMethod<\/em>, which was scheduled to be performed by Symphony Tacoma but was\ncanceled due to COVID-19. However, she was commissioned by the local Chinese\nReconciliation Foundation to write a children\u2019s story for their virtual Tacoma\nMoon Festival at Chinese Reconciliation Park (http:\/\/tacomamoonfestival.org<\/a>,\n2020). Her opera (with composer Stephen Dembski), Moon\nin the Mirror<\/a>,<\/em> saw another performance during the Chinese New Year\u2019s\ncelebration at Cleveland State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She joined the editorial board of the Chinese\npoetry journal First\nLine New York<\/a><\/em>, contributed poetry and translation, and edited its\nWeChat bimonthly journal as well as its printed biannual journal. She continued\nher struggle with her seventh poetry manuscript in Chinese, triggered by her\nmother\u2019s decline and passing in 2017 and compounded by her father\u2019s passing in\nApril 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Paul McCreary\n(he\/him) <\/strong>has\nbeen living in Taiwan for the past year and a half. For the first year he was\non sabbatical, investigating how adult education mathematics instructors\nsupport their students who feel anxious about returning to the classroom. To\nfacilitate communication with these educators, Dr. McCreary enrolled in\nMandarin language classes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to visiting adult education classes,\nDr. McCreary joined with a mathematics instructor at a local adult community\ncenter to conduct a series of math and English workshops. It was an exciting\ninterchange among faculty and between students and faculty. Further, Dr.\nMcCreary was able to share many of the math worksheet problems developed by a\ncollective of math professors in Tacoma for public school teachers in the south\nPuget Sound area. The math instructor in Taiwan collaborated with Dr. McCreary\nto translate these problems into Mandarin and to modify problem statements to\naccommodate the students\u2019 cultural background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, Dr. McCreary enrolled in a master\u2019s\ndegree program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, including coursework\nin Generative Phonology and Teaching Vocabulary. He looks forward to\ntranslating this degree into skills and teaching techniques for Evergreen\nTacoma students, many of whom are English language learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Gilda Sheppard (she\/her)<\/strong> has been busy these past two years. Sheppard\nhas presented at national conferences, including the Association of American\nColleges and Universities\u2019 2019 Summer Institute. She has also been working\nwith colleague Sarah Ryan, along with other faculty and administrators\nnationally, on Bringing Theory to Practice and Great Colleges for the New Majority.\nSheppard also co-authored an article with colleague Dr. Anthony Zaragoza,\ntitled \u201cAdult Education and Cooperative Entrepreneurialism at a Small, Urban,\nPublic Liberal Arts College.\u201d During her sabbatical she was a visiting lecturer\nat Ashesi University in Ghana. On the heels of being one of the 2017 Hedgebrook\nFellows, Gilda was named a 2019 Artist Trust Fellow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheppard continues to\nteach sociology courses at seven Washington State prisons. She is a Board\nmember for Compassion Action Network, a member of the Village of Hope, and\nsponsor for the Black Prisoners\u2019 Caucus <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, after over a\ndecade of work, Sheppard completed her feature length documentary Since\nI Been Down<\/a>, <\/em>which has been accepted at nine festivals–including the\nlargest documentary festival in the US, DOC NYC, where the film was recently\nnamed a festival favorite. Together with former student, now colleague, Tonya\nWilson and Kimonti Carter she has been on several panels for the film. Recently\nshe was on a panel with Professor Emerita Angela Davis, King County Prosecutor\nDan Satterberg, and Director of Abolitionist Law Center Saleem Holbrook. Read\nmore about the film at the Tacoma News Tribune<\/em> and the Seattle Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, Sheppard\ncollaborated with staff and faculty colleagues, as well as Deans Therese Saliba\nand Marcia Tate Arunga, to bring Toshi Reagon to Evergreen for our Climate\nJustice Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Anthony Zaragoza (he\/him) <\/strong>is a founding member of the Resilience Studies Consortium<\/a> (RSC)<\/a>, representing Evergreen-Tacoma in this nation-wide and (emerging international) network of\nuniversities working to advance \u201cplace-based\u201d educational opportunities for\nundergraduate students from a diversity of backgrounds, passions, and\nbioregions. In this capacity he has given invited presentations on\n\u201cNeoliberalism in the Neighborhood\u201d at Kansas Wesleyan, Roosevelt University in\nChicago, Tuskegee University in Alabama, and Western State University in\nColorado. He also hosted the 2019 RSC National Conference at Evergreen-Tacoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Zaragoza is co-author, with Dr. Maria\nIsabel Morales, of a chapter titled \u201cA Pedagogy of Human Dignity & Becoming\nKin in the Classroom.\u201d The chapter appears in the forthcoming Kinship:\nScience and Spirit in a World of Relations<\/em>,edited by John\nHausdoerffer, Robin Wall Kimmerer, & Gavin Van Horn through Chelsea Green.\nThe article discusses the use of storytelling as a humanizing pedagogy that can\ndevelop interdisciplinary multi-modal knowledges as well as relationships of\nsolidarity, as part of creating an effective learning community. Zaragoza is\nalso co-author, with Dr. Gilda Sheppard, of \u201cAdult Education and Cooperative\nEntrepreneurialism at a Small, Urban, Public Liberal Arts College\u201d in the\njournal Liberal Education<\/em>, Fall 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political economy storytelling was at the\nheart of an Upward Bound Arts and Literature class he co-taught with Nadine\nTussey, as well as his Summer 2020 Class at Evergreen. Zaragoza recently\npresented at the faculty meeting on some of the class\u2019s projects<\/a>. The class also had a Cross-Campus\nStoryshare between an Evergreen storytelling class, Upward Bound, and an\nEnvironmental Justice course at Roosevelt University taught by Bethany Barrett.\nAlong with Natasha Lemke, Dr. Zaragoza was also a planner and facilitator for\nthe post-election Village-to-Village Collaboration between Pierce Community\nCollege and Evergreen-Tacoma, and is planning future quarterly collaborations.\n\n—
\nElizabeth Williamson, Ph.D.
\n(pronouns: she\/her)
\nCurriculum and Faculty Hiring Dean

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