News from the School of IAS

Category: Alumni

Snail Trail: MFA graduates launch eco-poetics press and journal

Recent graduates of the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at University of Washington Bothell have launched a unique publication project, a small press and a hand-bound journal of ecopoetics entitled Snail Trail. Nurtured in the spaces of the MFA program, the journal had multiple inspirations. Eric Sneathen’s Snail Poems (Krupskaya, 2016). AFTER LIFE (what remains), an exhibition/experience exploring Asian Pacific American and Indigenous artists’ exploring precarity and persistence under environmental and military devastation (June/July 2018, Alice Gallery, Seattle). Through dialogue with one another and faculty members Woogee Bae, Aya Bram BonnLuders, and Amy Jones developed Snail Trail: an ecopoetics journal as a way to think about poetry and social change.

November 18, 2019

Mary Jane Topash educates the public on the thrivance of Native communities in the Pacific Northwest

Mary Jane Topash (Tulalip and Potawatomi) was working full-time at the Hibulb Cultural Center in Tulalip when she was completing her M.A. in Cultural Studies (‘17) at the University of Washington Bothell. It was during this time when Mary Jane gained interest in addressing issues of (mis)representation and the commodification of Indigenous people in museums. She explained ...

November 14, 2019

Shibuki Hanai discusses his Public Management Fellowship with City of Hillsboro

IAS alum Shibuki Hanai (‘14, ’18) has been serving as a Public Management Fellow for the City of Hillsboro, Oregon since July. This fellowship is designed for emerging leaders with a strong commitment to public service and provides a breadth of experience in local government. Hanai talked with IAS News about his motivations to seek the fellowship and how his interdisciplinary education prepared him for this experience.

October 31, 2019

Alumni Shout Out!

Danny Molvik (Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’04, Policy Studies, ’07) is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon working on their mobile shopping app. Hillary U (Culture, Literature & the Arts; Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’10) has joined Amazon Web Services as their Senior Communications & Operations Manager for EC2 Business Development. Woogee Bae (Creative Writing & Poetics, ’19) has joined Seattle Arts & Lectures as a Donor Relations Associate. Ray Corona (Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’13) visited Julie Shayne and ...

October 30, 2019

Julie Shayne and Jessica Manfredi publish paper about feminist activist scholarship in the Trump-Bolsonaro era

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) faculty member Julie Shayne and Global Studies alum Jessica Manfredi co-authored an article titled “Reflections on Activist Scholarship in the Trump-Bolsonaro Era: Dual Hemisphere Hate Transforms Intellectual Praxis into Political Imperative” which just came out in the Colombian open-access journal Revista CS. It was published in a special issue on activist scholarship ...

October 24, 2019

Anny Smith passes the Certified Health Education Specialist exam

Anny Smith graduated from UW Bothell in 2019 with a BA in Health Studies and minor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (GWSS). Smith passed the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) exam this last week and this certification will be invaluable in her future work as a social worker. She hopes to bridge social justice with her background in healthcare and GWSS to provide a more holistic approach with those she serves by developing programs to address root causes of ...

October 21, 2019

IAS Faculty, Alumni & Community Partners Present at Radio Research Conference in Italy

IAS faculty, alumni and community partners presented two papers on the theme of “Radio as Social Media” at the ECREA Radio Research Conference held at the University of Siena (Italy). The first paper, titled “How we talk to each other: Strategies for sustaining student media,” was presented by Amoshaun Toft and Kristin Gustafson, and was also co-authored by IAS alumn Amani Sawari ...

October 9, 2019

Samantha Penjaraenwatana helps close the gap for first-generation students

Alum Samantha Penjaraenwatana (’15) was the first in her immediate family to go to college and now she’s helping other first-generation students find their way. Penjaraenwatana says the support she received at UW Bothell and the mentorship of fellow student Mina Hooshangi (’12) made all the difference. In fact, her experiences inspired her to pursue a professional career in student development, and she is now a graduate student at Seattle University.

October 3, 2019

Alumni Shout Out!

Isabel Conrad (Media & Communication Studies, ’18) is an Internal Communications Consultant at Vulcan and a second year student in the Master of Communication in Communities and Networks program at University of Washington. Jimena Huamani (Community Psychology and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, ’17) has joined the UW Bothell Organizational Excellence and Human Resources (OE/HR) as the Human Resources Assistant. Paul Johnson (M.A. in Cultural Studies, ’11) has earned a master’s degree in Project Management from Georgetown University (’19). He also holds an M.S. in Human Resources Development from Villanova University (’15). Andrea Lu (Media & Communication Studies, ’17) is a Performance Marketing Associate at New Engen. Salvador Salazar-Cano

October 3, 2019