Morning Sessions

Evergreen Explorers: Living a Life of Adventure

Join fellow Evergreen Adventures to explore new places and ideas about how adventure and exploration fit into our lives today and in our histories. Come for slides and stories from the cold depths of Kazan River to the soaring peaks of Mount Kennedy. Share your own Evergreen adventures and discuss the deeper value of an adventurous life and the sometimes commodification of the high and far.
- Paul Przybylowicz, Ph.D.
  Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College
- - Scott Baker ’77
  - Tom Boley ’81
  - Burnell Schaetzel-Hill, M.D., BA ’81
  - Laurie Schaetzel-Hill ’81
  - Jeff Shushan ’81
Explore Your Writing Voice: Cultivating Our Voice as Female Writers

Engage in a panel conversation about the opportunities and challenges of developing a voice as a female writer, communicator, and leader. Personal stories will be shared and resources offered in the pursuit of empowerment. A rich dialogue between the panel and participants will cultivate networking, mentoring, and inspiration.
- Wendy C. Ortiz ‘95
  Author
- Juniper Zars-White ‘04
  Writer, Artist
Explore the Arts: The Changing Arts Landscape

The ways artists work-their aims and aesthetics, tools and methods-all are changing in the 21st century. How can artists both “grasp tight the old ways” (in the words of Inuit artist, Aupilarjuk) and also adapt to the changing social, economic, political, and technological landscapes of our own times?
- Drew Buchman, DMA, ‘77
  Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College
- Sandie Lewis Nisbet
  Emerita Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College, Co-Founder and Consultant to Small World Productions (SWP)
Explore Leadership: When it is up to you: How the Reflective Practitioner Drives Change – MPA Symposium and Reunion

Most people in public service face situations large and small in which they themselves are the ones with the authority—the discretion—to decide what happens next. This exercise of public judgment receives less considered attention than it may deserve. Recent efforts to impose or strengthen bureaucratic rules and quantitative performance standards reveal a deep misunderstanding about the nature of judgment. Featuring a talk by Camilla Stivers, with responses from Lucia Harrison and Steve Salmi, this session explores the art of judgment in public life as a crucial aspect of public service, for individuals, agencies, and the people they serve.

9–10:45 am in Sem 2 B1105
- Cheryl Simrell-King, Ph.D.
  
  Host
  
  Member of MPA Faculty and former MPA Director
- Camilla Stivers, Ph.D.
  Former member of MPA faculty and former MPA Director
- Steve Salmi, Ph.D., MPA ’95, BA ‘88
- Lucia Harrison, Ph.D.
  Emeritus Member of the Faculty former MPA Director
Explore Racial Justice: From Promise to Practice: Evergreen Education as a Tool for Advancing Racial Justice

In this session, we will discuss promise to practice with special emphasis on advancing racial justice. Rudy Martin will begin his remarks with some reflections on how the promise of Evergreen core values has coincided and might better coincide with the kinds of practices that best educate Evergreen students to be life-long advocates of racial justice. Tom Womeldorff will begin by focusing on why the promise of white anti-racist actions are often neutralized in their practice, both due to institutional structures and the internal self-psychology of the white ally.

Rudy and Tom will then discuss practices in the Evergreen program then and now: To what extent have our alumni continued as "life-long learners" with respect to adapting to the changing landscape of racial justice issues? How do we know? What would we include in a refresher (booster shot) for alumni that renews their effectiveness in engaging racial justice issues? What would we include in a refresher course for current Evergreen faculty on how to structure programs to maximize the institution's continued quest to convert promise to practice? How do we maintain the spirit of life-long explorers?
- S. Rudolph 'Rudy' Martin, Jr., Ph.D.
  Founding Member of the Faculty, Emeritus Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College
- Tom Womeldorff, Ph.D., ‘81
  Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College
Explore the Environment: Opportunities and Challenges in Environmental Communication

Understanding environmental problems, such as the causes and consequences of climate change, requires navigating a landscape of complex, technical, and often, contested information. This interactive session will introduce participants to tools from marketing, mass communication, and rhetoric as a way to analyze images and narratives about climate change and other environmental issues.
- Kevin Francis, Ph.D.
  Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College
- Zoltan Grossman, Ph.D.
  Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College
- Josh Chaitin ‘88
  Senior Vice President, Edelman, Seattle
- Jana Fischback ‘14
Explore The Evergreen Radio Station: Come visit the new KAOS studios!

Spend the morning reconnecting with KAOS alumni and peruse archival photos and materials from the 40 year history of KAOS. These materials are being specially prepared and assembled for this historic event. In the afternoon, get back into the KAOS Community Radio studios and record legal IDs, music programs and your KAOS stories.
- Ruth Brownstein ‘99
  General Manager KAOS
- Morgan Jaffee
  
  Operation Manager KAOS
Tour Evergreen’s Center for Creative and Applied Media (CCAM)

The Center for Creative & Applied Media (CCAM) houses Media Engineering, the Evergreen TV Studio, and more. As the College’s media hub, the Center provides functional studio space for production, teleconferencing, broadcast across the college’s audio-visual and computer networks, and preservation of a burgeoning collection of media files (audio, video, film, etc.) in formats that are accessible in today’s technological environment. We invite you to come take a tour of this great facility.

9:15–10:45 am