Congratulations Evergreen MPA Class of 2014

Friday, June 13^th at 10am, doors at 9:15 in the Evergreen Longhouse

Opening Prayer

Delbert Sm3tcoom Miller (Skokomish) Artist, culture bearer and spiritual leader of the Skokomish Tribe

 Welcome and Acknowledgements

Cheryl Simrell King, MPA Director & Master of Ceremonies

Opening Remarks

Michael Zimmerman, Provost, The Evergreen State College

Thomas (Les) Purce, President, The Evergreen State College

 Introduction of MPA Faculty

Cheryl Simrell King

Faculty Speaker

Moroni Benally

Student Speakers

Tribal Governance Cohort

Marjoree Corless

Public/Nonprofit Administration & Public Policy (General) Cohort

Jane Wall

Jamie Yoder

Hooding

MPA Tribal Governance Cohort names read by Puanani Nihoa

MPA Public/Nonprofit Administration & Public Policy (General) Cohort names read by Randee Gibbons

Closing Remarks

Cheryl Simrell King

Announcing the General/Public-NonProfit Administration/Public Policy Cohort Capstone presentation schedule – you are welcome to attend any/all!

Congratulations to the presenters!

THURSDAY JUNE 5, 2014 (6-9p in Sem 2 D1105)

6:00     Casey Carter – GRuB Strategic Planning

6:15     Haley Rice and Tara Weaver– Business Plan for a Farm

6:30     Meagan Darrow and Meghan Sullivan– Nonprofit Employee Engagement

6:45     Simon Gorbaty – Worker Cooperatives

7:00     Josh Martinsen and Pixie Needham – Tenino Quarry Pool/ Operations Plan

7:15     Lars Andreassen – Co-Op Preschool Capacity Building

7:30     Jamie Yoder and Andrew Beattie – Afterschool Programs in Yelm

7:45     Pedro Garcia and Kenny DeShiro-Harper – Yelm Lions Foundation Six-Year Strategic Plan

8:00     Michael Ellsworth – Recidivism & Remediation of Disciplined Healthcare Professionals

8:15     Shauna Muendel – The Connection Between TB and Diabetes

8:30     Christopher Barnes, Jennifer Johnson, and Jane Wall – Arts Education and Development

SATURDAY JUNE 7, 2014 (9a-2p in Sem 2 E1105)

9:00     Christy Bezanson – DSHS Program Evaluation

9:15     Caitlyn Jekel – Accountability Measures for Industry Specific Training Programs

9:30     Megan Brownlee and Andrew Oommen – Eviction and the Sociology of Rental Markets

9:45     Gretchen Simons, Michael Sloan, and Vitali Litvin – PARC Foundation Strategic Plan

10:00   Rochelle Morris and Sheila Smith – Implementing Public Policy

10:15   Erick Agina – Labor &  Industries Project Planning

10:30   Todd Haskins and Renee Noby– Brownfields in Washington State

10:45   Jennifer Nortrup and Adam Trimble – How Local Governments Promote Sustainable Development

11:00   Lisa Harper – Light Pollution in Olympia, WA

11:15   Cecelia Loveless – Implementing an Institutional Effectiveness Model as SPSCC

11:30   Ashley Daniel – The Effects of Local Sourcing Law: Farmers and Processors in WA State

11:45   Deborah O’Neill, Julia Rose, and Kara Seldin – Moving Charter Schools Forward in WA State:  Administrative Documents at WSCSC

12:00   Rachel Dreon – Evolving the Evergreen Experiment

12:15   BREAK

12:30   Katitza Holthaus – Estuary Project Plan (CLAMP)

12:45   Carly Kujath – Operation Place Safety:  Group Violence Reduction Strategy for Prisons

1:00     Nicolette Wegner – Inclusive Intimacy:  Documentary

1:15     Rachel Burke and Gloria Martin – Dual Credit in High School

1:30     Rebecca Reule – Funding TOGETHER!

1:45     Heather Smith – More Efficient Technology Processes

Don’t forget today is the day to register!  Visit our registration page if you have questions.

Michael Lane is available to sponsor contracts this summer.  He is new Member of Faculty in the MPA program, working closely with the Tribal Governance cohort.  He brings over 30 years of experience in working, and engaging in training, with Indigenous communities and Allies in the following areas: community development, community based advocacy, governance and self government issues, creation of trusts, strategic planning, public health issues, and various community based training initiatives.

Michael has a Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College, a Juris Doctor from Arizona State University, a Masters of Indigenous Studies (First Class Honours) from Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi ( a fully accredited Maori University in New Zealand) and is completing his PhD dissertation on Indigenous Sovereignty through the Lens of Indigenous Advocacy.

Michael can provide supervision on Individual Study contracts and Internship placements in the following areas:

• Community Development

• Advocacy (Public Interest and General)

• Political and Governance Organizations and Structures

• Indigenous Peoples issues

• Law and Justice

• Legal History

• Governance Systems

• Quality Management Systems

• Strategic Planning

• Water, Fishing and Hunting Rights

• Sacred Site Protection

This list is by no means exhaustive, and if interested in having Michael Lane sponsor you,  contact him at lanem@evergreen.edu.

Provided by  Dr. Zoltán Grossman

Details of the Billy Frank, Jr. memorials, from the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC):  “A public viewing will be held on SATURDAY, May 10 from noon to 5 p.m. at Mills and Mills Funeral Home, 5725 Littlerock Road SW, Tumwater.

Funeral services for Billy Frank Jr. will be held 10 a.m. SUNDAY, May 11 in the Squaxin Island Tribe’s event center at the Little Creek Casino Resort, 91 W State Route 108, Shelton. He will be interred at the Chief Leschi Cemetery [Nisqually], 2249 Reservation Road, just north of the ballfields. A dinner will follow at the Squaxin Tribe’s event center.

LIVESTREAM of Sunday memorial services (10 am-12 noon Pacific):
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/889018/events/2980650

DONATIONS are being accepted by the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission for the Billy Frank Services Fund. Send donations to the NWIFC, 6730 Martin Way E., Olympia, Wash. 98516. http://www.nwifc.org Donations can also be made to the Billy Frank Jr. Salmon Forever Fund in care of Salmon Defense, PO Box 7431, Olympia, Wash. http://salmondefense.org/salmon-forever-fund/ ”

BACKGROUND:

The Life and Legacy of Billy Frank, Jr.
(you can add memories here):
http://billyfrankjr.org/

Obituary in the Olympian:
http://www.theolympian.com/2014/05/06/3118975/tribal-fishing-activist-led-fight.html

As Long as the Rivers Run
(1971 documentary by the late Carol Burns):
View 1-hour film at https://archive.org/details/AsLongAsTheRiversRun

Where the Salmon Run: The Life and Legacy of Billy Frank, Jr.
(by Trova Heffernan, Washington State Heritage Center Legacy Project, 2012)
http://www.sos.wa.gov/legacyproject/oralhistories/BillyFrankJr/
PDF text at http://www.sos.wa.gov/legacyproject/oralhistories/BillyFrankJr/pdf/complete.pdf

Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way
(by Charles Wilkinson, University of Washington Press, 2000)
https://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/WILMES.html

Statement by President Obama
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/05/statement-president-passing-billy-frank-jr

I am sad to announce the passing of a great man, who profoundly influenced our nation’s understanding of Native sovereignty, and who helped guide Evergreen for many years.  Billy Frank, Jr., a trustee for the college from 1996 to 2003, was a Native American environmental leader and treaty rights activist who spent much of his life advocating for human rights for all.

Billy grew up fishing for salmon and steelhead on the Nisqually River, and he was on the front line of the long struggle over treaty-guaranteed Indian fishing rights in the 1960s and ‘70s.  His perseverance landed him in jail more than 40 times, bringing national attention to the issue and helping to guarantee Indian fishing rights when the “Boldt Decision” was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1979.  As chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Billy achieved a number of key agreements between the tribes and various local, state and federal officials that further strengthened treaty-guaranteed fishing rights and environmental protection laws.

Billy was the deserving recipient of many significant honors during his lifetime, including the 2004 American Indian Visionary Award, given for exceptional contributions to American Indian freedom; the Albert Schweitzer Prize in 1992 for Humanitarianism and the 1990 Martin Luther King, Jr., Distinguished Service Award for Humanitarian Achievement.  Evergreen awarded him honorary MPA and MES degrees in 2004.

Billy continued to serve as an advisor to the college and as personal counsel to me till the time of his death.  We will fly the black flag in his memory until the time of his memorial services.

If you forgot to get your graduation application in…please contact Puanani Nihoa for the Tribal Governance Concentration and Janet Hays or Laura Hendrix for the general concentrations TODAY!