March 2020

Hosted by IAS and the Latinx Student Union, Washington State poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna was on the UW Bothell campus on Wednesday February 26th for a full day of activities. She visited BIS 258 "Introduction to Latinx Studies" in the morning to discuss her poetry collection Killing Marias (2017). Later she had an informal "meet and greet" with students who had the opportunity to talk to her about a range of issues. In the afternoon she presented a public lecture titled ...

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum was recently elected co-chair of the Seattle LGBTQ commission. The commission’s mission is “to effectively address and present concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender citizens of Seattle to the Mayor, City Council, and all City Departments” and to recommend  “legislation, policy, programs and budget items to the Mayor, City Council and City departments.”