Red Sky’s “Mistatim”

“Under a prairie sky, a simple wooden fence is all that separates Calvin on his
ranch and Speck on her reservation, but in many ways they are worlds apart,
that is – until a wild horse named Mistatim turns their worlds upside down.”

A theatre/dance production, where themes of cultural history, environmental care, responsibility, and empowerment are expressed through the sharing of Indigenous values and principles.

February 6th, 11:00 AM
(K‐12 students/school districts)
and 6:30 pm (Evergreen community and general public)
Experimental Theater, located in the Communications Building
at The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
Free, public event
Please: No food or drink in the Experimental Theater
For more information: geniah@evergreen.edu or (360) 867‐5337

MPA is one of the sponsors of this special event.

On Saturday, January 28, the two first year MPA cohorts (Public/Nonprofit Administration & Public Policy and Tribal Governance) are coming together for a day-long Leadership Summit. The day includes seven guest speakers on two panels – leaders working in state, local, and tribal governments and in community-based organizations – and plenary speaker Ron Allen, Chairman and CEO of the Jamestown S’Kallam Tribe. Topics include: Leading with Purpose and Reflexivity, Leading from Where You Are, and Leading for Social, Political, Economic & Racial Justice. The day also includes a shared seminar and leadership workshops. We expect an exciting day!

The Olympia Public Works Department is initiating an exciting “value planning” exercise with Evergreen’s Center for Sustainable Infrastructure (ECSI) to set the stage for a transportation corridor study expected to begin in the first quarter of 2017.

The Fones Road corridor in east Olympia is failing to meet the transportation levels of service established by the City of Olympia.  Early estimates suggest that the cost of the standard road-widening and street improvement response could exceed $15 million.

The purpose of the value planning exercise will be to identify alternative approaches that affordably meet the need for multi-modal transportation throughout the corridor, in ways that better serve the City’s climate, economic development, livability, and other comprehensive plan goals.

Value planning exercises are especially recommended for projects like Fones Road that have the potential to impact a broad range of City priorities, including compliance with growth management, multi-modal mobility, pedestrian and bicycle safety, and climate mitigation and adaptation policies.  This value planning process will develop a range of options that also include consideration of improvements to regional trail connections, open space, stormwater, and economic development. Rhys Roth, Director, ESCI

On January 13, 2017, MPA new faculty member Lachezar (Lucky) Anguelov presented a paper at SPSA (Southern Political Science Association) 88^th Annual Conference in New Orleans.  Lucky coauthored the paper, Implementation of EECBG sustainability programs among Native American Tribal Governments: Environmental v Economic Sustainability, with MPA new faculty member Eric Trevan.

MPA faculty member Larry Geri will become Evergreen’s next Curriculum Dean effective July 2017.  The MPA Program will miss Larry terribly, but looks forward to working with him in this College-level administrative role.   Congratulations, Larry!