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Out in Front Possibly the first Ventura County crime analyst to specialize in the subfield, LaMoure has made her mark in cellular analytics, which typically involves the use of phone company call records to place a cellular handset at a certain time and location. She helped to establish a cellular analytics training program and has taken her expertise to national conferences.

“I became infatuated with it. It was my favorite thing in the world to look at and to do,” she said. “When you got the data, it was a puzzle to undo it, but once you undid it, it was right there. The numbers don’t lie.”

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obberies are her favorite. When she was a new crime analyst for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, Jen LaMoure ’09 tracked vehicle thefts and sex crimes. She moved on to robberies and saw that they were small in number, locally, and serial in nature. One person would hit coffee houses, and another “with a very distinct M.O.” held up gas stations for cigarettes and lotto tickets. Within weeks or months, the sheriff’s office closed nearly all of her cases.

Since offenders do not respect jurisdictional boundaries, LaMoure has been able to help end crime sprees affecting people throughout California and across

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the nation. These days, she said, solving a case usually takes at least one police investigator who thinks like a cop and one analyst who knows data sets and has an eye for patterns.

Let’s say pharmacies are being robbed.

Well, which ones? Is it a major chain or “all the mom and pop shops?” asks LaMoure. “Or maybe it’s all the ones that are facing a certain way on the street. Or they’re a certain distance away from the freeway exit. Or in a strip mall.” Today, questions like these can be refined and answered more rapidly than ever, with the rise of open source data and the growth in LaMoure’s desk-bound brand of police work.

LaMoure now runs the 15-person crime analysis unit at the sheriff’s office. It’s her dream job, and one that she knew nothing about upon entering Cal Lutheran as a criminal justice major.

At that time, she appreciated the community benefits of law enforcement and also knew she did not want to carry handcuffs or a gun. After graduation, she earned a Master of Advanced Study in criminology, law and society from UC Irvine and state certification in crime and intelligence analysis.

For the second time this semester, LaMoure is teaching a Cal Lutheran course that was developed at the suggestion of her former professor and mentor Helen Lim. Criminal justice and criminology majors in the course hardly ever, at first, want to be crime analysts, LaMoure says.

They aspire to become police officers, lawyers and federal agents. They want to work investigations as detectives or in forensics. On the first evening of class, some of them expect Crime Analysis to be “like NCIS or Forensic Files.”

But by the end, LaMoure will have a line of would-be interns and a classroom of people prepared to see police work through different eyes. Lisa Alvarado ’01, Sarah Dawoodjee ’17, Abbigael Howard ’18 and Jordan Kessler ’18 all work in her sheriff's office unit.

LaMoure enjoys “engaging with people who don’t really know about crime analysis. Sometimes they see something that people who look at it every day miss.”

—Kevin Matthews

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Lynda Paige Fulford, MPA ’97 EDITOR

Kevin Matthews ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Peggy L. Johnson ART DIRECTOR

Bree M. Montanarello CONTRIBUTORS

Colleen Cason, Karin Grennan, Jana Weber PHOTOGRAPHER

Brian Stethem ’84 EDITORIAL BOARD

Edgar Aguirre ’99 Jonathan Gonzales ’04, MS ’07 BRIAN STETHEM ’84

Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren Angela (Moller ’96) Naginey, MS ’03 Michaela (Crawford ’79) Reaves, PhD

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New school, community mission • Give service for tuition help.

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for alumni, parents and friends.

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Paloma Vargas, PhD

times a year by University Relations

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A new book sets stories told by immigrants alongside the Bible.

Bruce Stevenson ’80, PhD

Copyright 2020. Published three

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Jean Kelso ’84 Sandlin, MPA ’90, EdD ’12

Growing numbers of people from the workforce come to or return to post-traditional degree programs.

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Mixtec speaker Arcenio Lopez ’19 founded a corps of professional indigenous-language interpreters.

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CROSSINGS

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In her new book Finding Jesus at the Border, professor of religion Julia Lambert Fogg tells the stories of people caught up in the U.S. immigration system, putting today’s stories in dialogue with boundary-crossing by Jesus and Paul in the New Testament.

Central Americans proceed into Mexico on foot after crossing the Guatemalan border in October 2018. The migrant caravan’s movements were sensationalized and viewed as threatening by some U.S. news outlets. Professor Fogg asks, How do stories like this look from the migrants’ side?

These book excerpts are abbreviated, condensed and edited. Names have been changed.

A Crisis of Belonging To hear the border narratives in our Scriptures we must listen to the stories of those who cross borders and those who live at the border of belonging: the immigrants, the undocumented, the asylum seekers, children separated from their families.

With this book I invite you to make that effort. I invite you to really listen to your neighbors’ stories, to wrestle with their experiences as undocumented people, and to imagine what it’s like to walk in their shoes, navigating the public school

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system, the emergency room, a courtroom or an insurance claims office. I invite you to ask what it’s like seeking help from a local congregation instead of giving it, receiving charity rather than making an offering, figuring out the tax system, seeking worker’s disability or understanding tenant rights. Transformation begins here: listening to our neighbors’ stories. Along the way we will meet neighbors we may not have even known we had.

Santiago came across the border from Mexico almost 33 years ago, a baby in his mother’s

arms. Her name is Maria, and at that time she was fleeing poverty and the violence of an abusive marriage to seek a better life for herself and for her son. Once she reached California, she settled in an immigrant Mexican community. She remarried. She had another son.

She lost her second husband—a U.S. citizen—to military service abroad in Iraq. She moved again. Her boys grew up speaking primarily in English and some Spanish with an American accent. They went to public school, played soccer, attended church and got fairly good grades. There were gangs in the area, but Santiago managed to keep himself and his little brother out of trouble.

Around Santiago’s 15th birthday, everything ground to a halt.

He found out he was different from the other kids. He had no legal documents, no birth certificate, no Social Security number, and therefore no legal identity. Everything he had always taken for granted—life in California, his friends, his education, his family, even his being American—fell away. If he wasn’t American like all the other kids, what was he? Who was he? He had no memory of Mexico or his Mexican father. In grade school, Santiago had studied the U.S. government as “our” government. He had learned U.S. history as “our” history, “our” democratic experiment, and “our” land of opportunity, but this American identity was no longer his. He was not part of “us,” and—this was the ultimate betrayal—he never had been. It was all a lie.

Santiago withdrew from his friends, his church, even his brother. Omar, three years younger, had a California birth certificate and baby photos with his American father. Somehow, Omar belonged. Santiago had no one to talk to about his discovery. His mother didn’t understand much English, let alone the future implications of his legal status. Omar had no idea his older brother had been born in a different country or that they had different legal rights. Santiago was terrified someone would discover his secret. What if his mother were arrested and sent back to Mexico? What if the police came and took him too? He couldn’t focus at school. He stayed home or sat in detention for acting out.

He failed that year and attended summer remedial classes. The school held him back a grade anyway. He was a ghost, drifting through his life because none of it was truly his.

What Would Jesus’ Family Do? The flight of refugees recurs across the centuries and echoes through the biblical narrative.

In every generation, under different empires, God’s people were on the move. In times of political turmoil, famine, and economic hardship, individuals, families and tribes in the ancient Near East—today’s Middle East—sought shelter or grazing lands in Egypt, and, when circumstances changed, they moved north and east, away from Egypt. Following the same migratory patterns both before and after the exodus,

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Jews settled throughout northern Africa, especially Egypt, along the Mediterranean coast, through the Arabian Peninsula, and across adjacent lands. It is in this context of historical Jewish migrations and life as a religious-ethnic minority under foreign empires that Matthew, a Jew, opens his gospel with a genealogy, a roll call of Jesus’ ancestors who put their faith in God and moved when they were called to move.

Matthew’s story of Jesus’ birth bears a striking resemblance to stories of immigrant children carried across borders in their mothers’ arms today. Consider the choices the holy family had to make before the boy Jesus was even weaned. When Joseph hears of the political threats against his child (Matt. 2:13), he must decide whether to flee with his family or to send Mary and the baby away. Perhaps he should stay in Bethlehem, work, and send money back when he can. But can Mary and the child make the journey to safety alone? The roads are dangerous and it’s best to travel in large groups. Still, a traveling group can sometimes turn on you or take advantage of you while you sleep. You never know whom to trust, where to rest, what to eat. If the family makes it to Alexandria—a journey that could take weeks—they may be able to locate some distant relative in a nearby village. But these are all guesses; nothing is certain except the voice of God telling them to flee. According to Matthew, the danger to their son is real, imminent and terrifying.

They must leave quickly.

Consider Mary’s prospects as a refugee in Egypt. As a new wife and mother, she leaves her home, her sisters, cousins, aunts and neighbors—all of the more experienced women who could support her and help her

raise her first child. Couldn’t she just go into hiding among them? But what if King Herod’s violence spreads beyond Bethlehem? Herod the Great could be erratic and vicious when he felt threatened. But fleeing all the way to Egypt? Wasn’t Joseph strong and able to provide for his family by working with his hands? With the coming slaughter, the holy family must choose now: follow the divine dreams, flee south and save their boy, or remain where they are and hide from the coming violence. According to Matthew, they follow the divine command and flee.

Safe in His Cell During my first visit to Adelanto Detention Center in Victorville—a federal immigration facility run by the private, for-profit corporation GEO Group—I met a young man, recently arrived, whom I’ll call Jorge. Jorge had lived in a border town in Mexico. His father was a security guard for a local business. He had a younger sister at home. One day Jorge approached the U.S. border guards and asked for asylum. In speaking with me he was circumspect about the details that led him to the decision to turn himself in.

But as we spoke I gathered that he had been pressured by local drug lords from a young age. His family could not protect him, and finally the cartel pulled him out of school, forcing him into illicit work. When he could no longer tolerate the cartel, he

Santiago withdrew from his friends, his church, even his brother.

turned himself in for protection. He was 16.

The border patrol handed Jorge over to ICE officers who placed him in a juvenile detention center for 15 months. Jorge was OK with that—in juvenile detention he could attend classes with other teens. In quiet Spanish he told me that it “wasn’t great, but it was good. I could study. I was still in the secundaria. I want to study, and I want to graduate. In juvenile detention I studied and worked.

They moved us around a lot. Nine months there, six weeks there, three months somewhere else…”

On his 18th birthday, ICE moved Jorge to the detention center in Adelanto. A teenager landed in an adult world. Here, among the men, Jorge kept to his cell for safety. I asked him if there was room to exercise. Not really. He told me they were allowed to leave their cell and go out into “the yard.” But, he said, his eyes inching sideways, “it’s crowded out there, and dangerous. In the yard, you have to be careful where you walk. It’s better to stay inside.” His words were chilling. In crowded gathering places like the exercise yard, Jorge was an easy target for men picking fights or recruiting for gangs.

From Jorge I learned that detention centers’ systems and protocols are similar to institutional prisons. Detainees wear color-coded clothes that

communicate whether or not they have a past criminal record, and, if they do, what kind of conviction they served time for. Jorge, like the older men in his cell, wore dark blue scrubs indicating no past criminal record. He could be in the same room with men wearing orange scrubs indicating they had, at some point in their life, committed a nonviolent crime such as a drug offense.

There was a third group of men dressed in red scrubs. The men wearing red had, at one time in their life, been convicted of a more serious or violent crime. Like the men in orange, the men in red were now detained solely on an immigration violation. Even so, men in blue scrubs could not be in the same room as men in red scrubs.

With respect to the law, none of the detainees were inmates or serving time. They were all waiting to put their civil case before an immigration judge.

Yet they were color-coded and wore their past records on their bodies.

Julia Lambert Fogg’s Finding Jesus at the Border: Opening Our Hearts to the Stories of Our Immigrant Neighbors (2020) is available in paperback and e-book editions from Baker Publishing and booksellers.

Content used with permission www.bakerpublishinggroup.com.

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Highlights

New school has a broad community mission The School for Professional and Continuing Studies makes opportunities for nontraditional students, lifelong learners and nonprofits.

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al Lutheran has launched a school focused on education beyond traditional bachelor’s and graduate degrees. Three years in the planning, the School for Professional and Continuing Studies includes two well-established programs – the Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals and the Center for Nonprofit Leadership – and the brand-new Center for Lifelong Learning.

This spring, the new center is starting a Fifty and Better program for older adults who want to take non-credit classes for the joy of learning. It already offers non-degree opportunities such as continuing education for educators.

“Our goal is to provide a continuum of educational experiences for posttraditional students that supports

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degree attainment, lifelong learning, professional development, leadership excellence and service to the region,” said the school’s dean, Lisa Buono, MS ’04, EdD ’11, who has directed the Professionals program and served on the university’s faculty since 2004. “We will meet these individuals where they are and provide tailored programs and resources for them.”

The Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals program has been accepting degreeseekers and their previous college credit since 1985. Offered in an accelerated format in Thousand Oaks, Oxnard and Woodland Hills, its night classes cater to students who are juggling work and family commitments.

The students served by the Professionals program are the fastest-growing

“We will meet these individuals where they are.”

group of learners nationwide and more diverse than traditional populations.

Sixty percent of Cal Lutheran’s Professionals are first-generation collegegoers, compared with 27% of traditional undergraduate students. Sixty-four percent of Professionals students are from racial and ethnic groups underrepresented on college campuses.

About 15% are veterans, many are single parents, and some are grandparents.

(See Page 14.)

To serve more of these students, Cal Lutheran is exploring additional majors such as healthcare management and scheduling classes at new times and in new formats.

Cal Lutheran’s Center for Nonprofit Leadership will continue to provide practical and affordable professional development classes and institutes to help staff, board members and volunteers sustain and improve their organizations.

Built into the new school’s DNA, said Buono, is the eight-page statement of Lutheran educational principles, “Rooted and Open: The Common Calling of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities,” which affirms that “a rich and living Lutheran intellectual and educational tradition compels member institutions to be open to a wide variety of insights from people with a wide variety of backgrounds.”

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TUITION HELP THROUGH AMERICORPS SERVICE The state of California and eight universities are partnering on a firstin-the-nation program to help students pay for college through public service. Cal Lutheran will receive about $340,000 in grants for its program.

An inaugural cohort of 25 AmeriCorps Fellows will work with local organizations to increase school completion rates for students and literacy rates for adults in lowincome and immigrant communities in Ventura County. Upon completion of their fellowships, the students will receive up to $10,000 in federal and state scholarships and additional money from the university.

Cynthia Duarte (above), an assistant professor of sociology and director of Cal Lutheran’s Sarah W. Heath Center for Equality and Justice, will lead the program with the help of a community engagement specialist and community service coordinator Madeline Liberti.

Students will intern at Cal Lutheran’s Rising Scholars Academy partnership with Moorpark

College, the Safe Passage program of the Thousand Oaks Police Department and Conejo Recreation and Park District, the Omega Initiative for men of color at Oxnard College, and the Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project.

The other participating universities are CSU Los Angeles, CSU Stanislaus, Dominican University of California, San Jose State University, UC Berkeley, UC Merced, and University of the Pacific.

ART WORKSHOPS BRING HEALING An associate therapist with the university’s Community Counseling Services, Adam Neal heard from people affected by local wildfires that they wanted to do Neilson something therapeutic, but less clinical than going to therapy. That’s when he got the idea for a series of free art workshops offered early this year at Art Trek in Thousand Oaks.

PROVOST WINS “We really wanted to NATIONAL HONOR create a way for commuThe Council of Indepennity members to come dent Colleges awarded Cal together to have a differLutheran Provost Leanne ent kind of conversation Neilson its 2019 Chief than people are used to Academic Officer Award. having about this type of The annual honor recogevent, through the arts, nizes exemplary contriin a safe space,” Neal butions in this role at the told Spectrum News in nation’s private colleges. February.

“You have guided the Local resident Natasha academic enterprise Kissler, who evacuated at California Lutheran with her family, told the University with excable television channel traordinary skill since that children and adults 2008,” said Glenn R. both benefit from using Sharfman of the CIC at art as an outlet. the Nov. 2 ceremony “I think sometimes in Baltimore. “You also we try to find the right have played a leadership words to say and we role in the workshops don’t really say what we for department and really feel. We just try to division chairs, helping calm everybody around colleagues who are new and not to panic,” she to leadership positions said. “Maybe our artwork strengthen all of our allows us to really tell institutions.” what we feel.”

LETTER: CAPITALISM MAKES THE PLANET A BETTER PLACE

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few comments on your article in the December 2019 issue about Dr. Moe-Lobeda [“Hope in All Climates,” Page 10].

Dr. Moe-Lobeda states in the article that the Earth cannot “support” capitalism. Capitalism is not static. It is developing daily. Capitalism has made the planet a greener place. Electric cars, solar and wind energy, developed under capitalism, are just a few examples of how capitalism has made the planet a better place to live. To say the Earth cannot “support” capitalism is a fallacy.

As for “changing” capitalism to another system, God help us if this happens. Ask the people of Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, how the socialist revolution is going.

Capitalism has taken millions of people out of poverty, including in Mexico, where I live.

A systematic economic change would cause worldwide chaos.

Sincerely, Christopher Groff ’88 (Guadalajara, Mexico)

ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Candice (Cerro ’09) Aragon President and Regent Representative Andrew Brown ’09 Vice President, Alumni Involvement & Recognition Julie (Heller ’89) Herder Vice President, University Relations Karsten Lundring ’65 Vice President, Development Jean Helm, MBA ’00 Secretary Erin (Rivers ’97) Rulon, MBA ’06 Immediate Past President

VOTING MEMBERS Joanne (Satrum ’67) Cornelius, MA ’74 Sal Sandoval ’78

AT-LARGE MEMBERS Sergio Galvez ’03, MPPA ’09 Irene (Tyrrell ’00) Moyer Reggie Ray ’92, MBA ’04 Brandi Schnathorst, MBA ’10

REPRESENTATIVES John Basmajian ’20 ASCLU-G Jennifer Jones McIntyre ’17, MBA ’20 GASC Angela (Namba ’02) Rowley, MS ’05 Faculty

OFFICE OF ALUMNI & FAMILY RELATIONS Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren Senior Director Stephanie Hessemer Associate Director Steven Guetzoian Assistant Director Jana Weber Administrative Assistant

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In Memoriam

Your names should be in lights

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n the Dallas suburb where I grew up, everyone knew the Cowboys had summer training camp in Thousand Oaks, which was supposed to be grueling but was something to envy during the heat wave of 1980.

Still, I hadn’t heard of Cal Lutheran.

As editor of your alumni magazine since 2011, I saw this repeated as a pattern. I would realize, during an interview with a CLU graduate or sometimes right after, that I ought to have known this name before. My go-to example is Caroline Cottom ’64, who became director of the U.S. nuclear freeze campaign and one of the people most responsible for the government’s decision to stop testing the terrifying weapons in 1992. She has plenty to say about that and, in a world a bit better than this one, would be famous.

There are others. A three-time Paralympian and 12-time medalist ought to be recognized wherever she goes.

But Cortney Jordan ’13 swam mostly under the radar as captain of both her U.S. national team and the Regals’ NCAA intercollegiate team.

A fine observer of people who grew up amid civil war in Zimbabwe, Fortunate Hove ’11, MPPA ’14, deserves more attention for her writing, and may one day receive it.

Jesus “Chuy” Loza ’93 has a great rags-toriches story and clearly never forgot where he started. I could definitely go on.

My point is that the people I’ve come across while serving as an editor for the university have made a serious impression on me, and I have been motivated to share that.

I don’t mean to play down the actual fame of alumni in fields from medicine to music, or on the top teams and coaching staffs in sports.

I do think that Cal Lutheran alumni characteristically make contributions behind the scenes. And keep making them. Desta Hagos ’73, well-known as a painter in her native Ethiopia, taught me in one conversation where art comes from and new ways to appreciate it. Decades after graduating, she was in her most productive phase.

Since I’ll be moving soon, you have the last CLU Magazine I’ll see to print.

These 26 issues would have been far poorer without alumni on the team: former art director Michael L. Adams ’72, former editor Carol Keochekian ’81, photographer Brian Stethem ’84, publisher Lynda Paige Fulford, MPA ’97, and editorial board members Michaela (Crawford ’79) Reaves, Bruce Stevenson ’80, Jean Kelso ’84 Sandlin, MPA ’90, EdD ’12, Stacy (Reuss ’91) Swanson, Angela (Moller ’96) Naginey, MS ’03, Edgar Aguirre ’99, Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren and Jonathan Gonzales ’04, MS ’07.

Thanks for reading. It’s been a great pleasure to meet you. —Kevin Matthews

Siri Eliason 1932 – 2019

Siri Eliason, former Cal Lutheran regent and longtime supporter, died on Dec. 15, 2019.

She was 87.

Eliason served on the Board of Regents from 1994 to 2003, a critical period in the university’s growth.

As the board’s chair from 1999 to 2002, she oversaw the sale of land that eventually became University Village Thousand Oaks.

She was instrumental in the development of a strategic plan guiding the $93 million “Now is the Time” capital campaign. Her leadership and business acumen helped the university to build north campus athletics facilities and create programs, centers, endowed professorships and scholarships.

Eliason strengthened Cal Lutheran’s community ties through the Scandinavian Cultural Center, the annual Scandinavian Festival and Nordic Spirit Symposium, and other activities. The university awarded her an Exemplar Medallion in 1986 and an Honorary Alumni Award in 2018.

A native of northern Sweden, she moved with her husband, Sven, to Los Angeles in 1957 and developed Scandiline Industries, which manufactured furniture in the U.S. and Europe. She also served as president and CEO of Los Angeles-based Danica Inc., a retail furniture chain. Sven was named honorary consul general of Sweden for Northern California in 1984, and Siri was appointed to succeed him after his death a year later.

Eliason held positions with numerous Scandinavian American organizations and was director of Scandinavia Today Inc., a major cultural project in Los Angeles. She was recognized by King Carl XVI Gustaf with the Royal Order of the Polar Star in 1978 and by the National Ethnic Coalition with the Ellis Island Award in 1984. In 1993, she received the Eliason Award, a distinction created in memory of her husband, from the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, and in 1996 was named Swedish American of the Year by the Vasa Order of America.

She is survived by her daughter, Jane.

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Puzzle

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Chris Kimball’s keywords The outgoing president (2008–2020) and current professor (2006–present) has left a long list of legacies. Fill in the blanks.

Kimball and new students help with Thomas fire recovery in 2018.

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6. Since 2008, a single, common volunteer

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1. The P in PLTS, Cal Lutheran’s northern-

project during New Student Orientation

Social and Behavioral Sciences (2010)

most outpost since 2014

7. Not to mention the Rolland Stadium and

2. Kimball is the CLU president 3. Kingsmen national championship sport in

Gallery of Fine

15. Carbon neutrality and resilience plans 16. Empowers people and caregivers with

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4. Residence hall dedicated in 2009 5. Highest-ever ranking in U.S. News Best Colleges’ regional list, from last September

6. You Got 7. William Rolland

Center opened

in 2017

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8. Four L’s 9. Four T’s 10. Previously run by the Ventura County

alternatives to speech

1 7. All his degrees are in this discipline 18. All his life, starting in Massachusetts

Community Foundation

11. Don’t ask a historian for this 12. Thousand Oaks to San Luis Obispo 13. Community space for regional startups

DOWN (last clue) On campus April 27 through May 1, 2020.

Come check it out!

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run by Center for Entrepreneurship

8. Regals national championship sport in 2016

9. What Kimball served at Late Night

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12. KCLU Radio’s domain since 2013 expansion 13. Since 2016 in Westlake Village:

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Science Center opens soon 15. Kimball signed Second Nature

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Lutheran theological seminary in Berkeley Ordinal, lucky

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The Steven D. Dorfman Center A new home for the School of Management Bold. Inquisitive. Impactful. School of Management graduates have shaped their organizations and communities for more than 30 years.

This new center will create an engaging hub that inspires active learning, community building, collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship for the next generation of leaders.

You can help make this vision a reality.

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Q&A

Chia-Li Chien’s most recent book is Enhancing Retirement Success Rates in the United States: Leveraging Reverse Mortgages, Delaying Social Security, and Exploring Continuous Work (2019).

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Chia-Li Chien (“Jolly Jan,” she’ll tell you to say) has convinced her husband to keep working, but couldn’t get her mother-in-law to delay Social Security. She has ideas to help the rest of us outlive the money.

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What was something that surprised you while writing this book?

The biggest aha! moment for me was finding out that portfolio allocation, as we’ve typically talked about it, isn’t a big concern.

Advisers will tell you that, before retirement, you should be at least 60% in stocks; but the moment you reach retirement, you ought to be 50-50 or even switch to 60% in fixed income and 40% in equity (stocks). That’s a rule of thumb and every adviser is still telling people to do that. But the percentage of the population where that actually makes a difference is so small. In fact, you should be more aggressive.

You consider a lot of financial strategies for retirement. Is there one you’d most like to recommend?

Yes, number one, delay claiming Social Security retirement benefits. That’s an easy task; people just don’t do it. Approximately 60% take it at age 62. At 70, you would get a 30% increase in the monthly payment.

If you don’t want to wait until 70, I get

CLU ADMINISTRATION that. But bare minimum, take it at full retirement age to get the full benefit. For me, that’s 67. For someone older, it might be 66 or 65.

downsize. Downsize quickly to save on heat, electricity and all of that. Or move to a lowercost-of-living state.

Thirty percent more is a lot.

Only 3-5% of people wait to take retirement benefits at 70. No matter how much incentive the government puts in there, they know people tend to take it early. They know. Look at them as a casino – they win. The Social Security Administration doesn’t do a very good job of telling people, You really need to delay this.

Your top five least expensive states to retire in are totally different for singles and couples, with no overlap. How could that be?

Again, those are all based on a survey that the U.S. government conducted. It’s different depending on expenses for one person versus two. You have to really do your homework before you make that migration.

But remember, we should not be planning just for two people. We also have to plan for one, from the very beginning. In the data set, about 80% of the single retirees are women, and most of them are widows. Most of these singles households, these widows, outlive their assets.

Please explain how your approach in this book is distinctive.

In financial planning, the majority of the research is all simulation of fictitious people.

You have $1 million and they run a simulation to see if you’re going to make it.

I don’t like that idea, so I went to the Census Bureau for data. This census data is not taken every 10 years, but continuously. It’s on a group of people they’ve followed since the 1980s. I took a more recent snapshot of that, looking at people who are already retired and already taking Social Security.

Then I matched it with another data set from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which goes and finds out the actual expenses, all kinds of living expenses. And then I map all of the different age groups. And I try to answer, Are they going to make it or not?

You define “success” as having at least one penny to your name at death. Do your clients ever see it that way?

No, they don’t. People always have something else in mind. Clients who can afford financial planning services will typically talk about having something for their family.

The biggest conflicts I see working with clients who are about to retire are: They want to pay for the children’s education or a child’s wedding. Oftentimes I have to tell clients, No, you just cannot do that.

Do regular people need to understand “scaling factors”?

They do. The scaling factor is a measurement based on the average living expenses for their state. You’d better not spend double the average amount because that’s just going to eat up your resources very quickly.

You need to find a way to stretch your resources as long as possible. A reverse mortgage could be a good strategy, but I say

Another strategy you raise is moving in with family.

In the old days, we tended to have seniors living in homes with us and multiple families living under one roof. I think that’s a good idea that we really need to take into consideration going forward. We have to not be so individualistic. Seniors will avoid loneliness, and it will be a benefit for the whole family spiritually, socially.

I would encourage people to do it, although my in-laws and my parents don’t like that idea. They have lived with their in-laws and had a terrible experience, so now they don’t want to bother their kids. But I feel like that’s the only solution, for many families, that will get us out of the state funding crisis for homeless seniors.

So be nice to your kids. Be nice to your friends and family because that might be your last resort. Or you might offer your home to others. Those are all good options to consider.

Chia-Li Chien is an assistant professor and director of the financial planning program in the School of Management; a succession program director at Value Growth Institute, a business succession consulting practice; a frequent speaker about succession and retirement planning at national conferences; and a board member for various national financial service associations. She holds a doctorate in financial planning and is a Certified Financial Planner as well as a Project Management Professional.

Chris Kimball, PhD President Leanne Neilson, PsyD Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Regina D. Biddings-Muro, EdD Vice President for University Advancement Karen Davis, MBA ’95 Vice President for Administration and Finance Melissa Maxwell-Doherty ’77, MDiv ’81 Vice President for Mission and Identity Melinda Roper, EdD Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Matthew Ward, PhD Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing Gerhard Apfelthaler, PhD Dean of the School of Management Michael Hillis, PhD Dean of the Graduate School of Education Richard Holigrocki, PhD Dean of the Graduate School of Psychology Jessica Lavariega Monforti, PhD Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences The Rev. Raymond Pickett, PhD Rector of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary The Rev. Alicia Vargas, MDiv ’95, PhD Dean of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary BOARD OF REGENTS Susan Lundeen-Smuck ’88, Chair Deborah Sweeney, Vice Chair Bill Camarillo, Secretary Candice (Cerro ’09) Aragon John Basmajian ’20 Linda Baumhefner The Rev. Jim Bessey ’66 Andrew Binsley Ann Boynton ’83 Sue Chadwick Tracy Downs ’88, MD Randall Foster Rod Gilbert, H’16 Arnold Gutierrez, PhD The Rev. Mark Holmerud Jon Irwin Chris Kimball, PhD Judy Larsen, PhD Rick Lemmo Malcolm McNeil The Rev. David Nagler, MDiv ’93 The Rev. Frank Nausin ’70, MDiv ’74 Carrie Nebens Kären Olson ’83 Jim Overton Genessis Palacios ’15, MBA ’20 Debra Papageorge ’12 Mike Soules Allison Wee, PhD Russell Young ’71 CAL LUTHERAN MISSION The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

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Celebrating the launch of the School for Professional and Continuing Studies in February are, from left, Claira BaileyGuerra ’19, Nichol Cruz ’18, current student Tony Ayala and Jose Carcamo ’18.

THE NEW COLLEGE TRY

Growing numbers of people from the workforce are returning to attend post-traditional programs, earning bachelor’s degrees at 29 and 69.

BY COLLEEN CASON / / PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

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eople who take life detours on the way to finishing college have long come to Cal Lutheran, even before they had a degree program of their own or a label like “posttraditional.” The first graduating class included the late Al Stone ’64, who started at California Lutheran College after a career as a Southern Pacific railway conductor. At one point a campus security guard, he was married before arriving on campus and a father of four by graduation at age 29.* Post-traditional undergraduates today are much more numerous, often considerably older than Stone was, and more likely than other 21st-century undergraduates to be women, single parents, veterans, nonwhite, and among the first members of their families to attend college.

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They also make up the fastest-growing segment of college students. By 2026, 8.8 million Americans age 25 and older will enter college, according to projections by the NCES Digest of Education Statistics. That would be down very slightly from a peak in 2010, but up almost 160% from 3.4 million at the start of the century, and climbing.

More than 36 million Americans have some college but no degree — a kind of limbo that takes a toll on these individuals and on our society, as detailed in a 2016 “manifesto” on posttraditional learners from the American Council on Education.

At Cal Lutheran, these students have received concerted attention since the Adult Degree Evening Program, better known as ADEP, began offering classes in 1985. They are now served

They are incredibly motivated. They know what their education is worth.

They challenge the faculty. They make the classroom come alive. under the banner of the Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals, an acknowledgement that most have spent time in the workforce.

The program offers eight majors and, as of this year, is housed in a new School for Professional and Continuing Studies (see Page 6). The first dean, Lisa Buono, MS ’04, EdD ’11, director of post-traditional studies at the university since 2012, likes to talk about their hard-won achievements, though not with three-dollar words such as “tenacity” and “perseverance.” “‘Grit’ says it all,” says Buono. “Every day, I am humbled by these students’ grit. They are incredibly motivated. They know what their education is worth. They challenge the faculty. They make the classroom come alive.”

Here are a few of their stories.

Running her first marathon in 2015 primed Nichol Cruz ’18 for the challenge of pursuing a degree in organizational leadership through the Professionals program.

“I told myself I wanted to do something I never thought I could,” said the 32-year-old human resources professional.

Cruz toured the Cal Lutheran campus during high school.

She was accepted but ended up at Moorpark College because her family lacked the financial resources for a private college.

“CLU was a dream I thought I never could realize,” she said.

After a friend enrolled in the Professionals program a few years back, Cruz checked into it and discovered it was more affordable than she imagined.

Although the program attracts career-changers, Cruz plans to stay in her field. For her, the biggest transformation was the one she saw in herself.

“I am the queen of introverts. I am the one who takes a seat closest to the door where I could be the wallflower,” she said.

At Cal Lutheran, she found herself attending football games and bonding with people including a new best friend.

“These people were invested financially and emotionally.

They were taking time away from their families, and that is impactful,” said Cruz, who received the Dedicated Alumni Award at the school’s launch celebration in February.

Like Cruz, Tony Ayala of Oxnard visited Cal Lutheran’s Thousand Oaks campus while in high school and determined that it was out of his financial reach. Instead of becoming the first member of his family to attend college, he ended up enlisting in the Navy and having a career in the Seabees.

After his retirement, he was working for a contractor at Naval Base Ventura County when a friend strongly suggested he enroll in the Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals program at Cal Lutheran.

“I told myself I was too old to do homework,” he said.

At that point, life got in the way, very seriously. His teen son

was diagnosed with brain cancer. Ayala became the primary caregiver through three surgeries and chemotherapy, while his wife remained in the military.

Once his son’s cancer went into remission, Ayala listened again to his friend. This time, he met online with a Cal Lutheran admissions counselor and soon was enrolled and working toward a bachelor’s in accounting at age 43.

He has two good reasons to excel. Both his sons are enrolled at Moorpark College.

“I want to be a role model,” he said. “I don’t want them to have any excuse to tell me school is too hard.”

A communications and public affairs professional who was laid off when Occidental Petroleum decamped Los Angeles, Christy Garcia ’14 took this life change as an opportunity to pursue her bachelor’s degree.

In her mid-50s, she had a lot of distance from the college classes of her youth.

“When you start college at 18, you don’t know what you want.

When you are an adult you are busy with a job, you have kids, you have a clear intention of doing well because you are making a serious investment,” said Garcia, who now works in marketing for health insurer Anthem Inc. in Thousand Oaks.

As a returning student, she was newly able to look upon professors as team members who were pulling for her. They got across a message that was new to her as a student: “If you are successful, I am successful.”

Success is not a straight line from Point A to B. When Pia Jacoby ’16, MS ’18, graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s in psychology from the Professionals program, she was 69.

Jacoby entered Cal State Northridge in 1959, dropped out, got married, had a son, divorced, remarried, helped her husband run a roofing business, saw her son through drug addiction and became an addiction counselor.

At age 59, she deeply regretted having no letters behind her name and enrolled toward a Cal Lutheran B.A. Jacoby’s passion in pursuing her degree won her an invitation to address all 800-plus graduates of the Class of 2016. She spoke on an enduring theme: “It’s never too late” to achieve your dreams. *Stone, a Marine, was profiled for his work in the U.S. Foreign Service in the April 2014 CLU Magazine. He died in 2017.

Colleen Cason is an award-winning journalist and longtime columnist for the Ventura County Star. A Thousand Oaks resident, she has served as adviser to The Echo student newspaper and currently edits Central Coast Farm & Ranch magazine.

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CRISIS COMMUNICATOR Arcenio Lopez ’19, an accounting graduate and community organizer, founded an Oxnard-based corps of professional indigenous-language interpreters.

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Now, an English-speaking detective can work with a professional interpreter who speaks English and Mixtec, cutting Spanish out of the equation.

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he most pressing matters in the lives of 20,000 Mexican immigrants in Ventura County can get lost in translation.

Because of a misunderstanding, they might lose their freedom. Their attacker could go unpunished. Their illness might go untreated.

To be sure, the courts, the police departments and the medical providers in this county routinely employ workers fluent in Spanish. So what is the problem?

Mexican immigrants who speak Mixtec, Zapotec or another indigenous language are not served by Spanish interpreters.

(In Southern California, these languages are often referred to by their names in Spanish. But neither Mixtec nor mixteco is the preferred term from the perspective of native speakers.

In the various dialects of Mixtec, indigenous people refer to themselves with an expression meaning “people of the rain” and to their language with another that translates as “word of the rain.”)

“It is a popular misconception that these are dialects of Spanish,” said Arcenio Lopez ’19, who graduated from the Bachelor’s Degree for Professionals program with a BS in accounting. “They are unique languages. Mixteco alone has 80 different variants.”

As executive director of the Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), Lopez is on the forefront of the language-justice movement. He is responsible for the creation of an Oxnard-based corps of professional indigenous-language interpreters.

Lopez came to Oxnard in 2003 from Oaxaca, Mexico, where he grew up speaking Mixtec. Spanish, his second language, was demanded of him by the Mexican public schools. A quick study, he learned English picking strawberries in California.

Three years later, he was working as MICOP’s first community organizer among farmworkers in the fields of El Rio. There, he witnessed how the inability of many Mixtec speakers to communicate either in Spanish or English resulted in workers being denied labor rights. He also heard of cases in which indigenous defendants were jailed because a translator failed to help them understand the charges against them.

At that time, MICOP had a few promotores who spoke indigenous languages but lacked training in interpretation.

Lopez believed more education would bolster their confidence when interacting with authority figures like judges, police officers and doctors, not only to translate the words but also to explain the cultural norms of indigenous people.

As an example, indigenous women believe only a female physician should examine their reproductive organs, whereas in other cultures the doctor’s gender makes no difference.

As trained interpreters, “they would become a bridge between the community and the providers,” he said.

Lopez developed a 40-hour training course and then contracted out the interpreters to organizations in touch with indigenous residents.

“We started very small, only 20 hours of contracts a month,” he said.

The Oxnard Police Department contracted for the service eight years ago. “We knew we needed to provide a better environment for victims of confidential crimes like sexual assault and domestic violence,” said Cmdr. Sharon Giles. Sometimes neighbors were pulled in to translate, she said, or officers attempted to question victims in Spanish.

“We were up against the wall. We were losing information,” Giles said.

Now, an English-speaking detective can work with a professional interpreter who speaks English and Mixtec, cutting Spanish out of the equation. This makes questioning more private for an indigenous victim of crime and provides clarity for the detective who must write the report in English, Giles said.

Today, MICOP translators are billing 200 to 300 hours a month and serving in health clinics, school districts, hospitals, workers’ compensation offices, an agricultural relations board, and even a state of Maryland Superior Court.

In addition, MICOP launched Radio Indígena 94.1FM, one of the first radio stations in the United States to broadcast in indigenous languages and the subject of a recent NBC News report.

Listeners are greeted with tanìndíí — “good morning.” Mixtec uses its own writing system and tones that vary by the dialect.

Offering platforms for the native language of a people to be heard and spoken is a way to empower them. “When a language dies you have lost your identity,” Lopez said, “and when that happens, it is hard to be a success.”

For more about MICOP’s work, visit mixteco.org.

Colleen Cason is an award-winning journalist and longtime columnist for the Ventura County Star. A Thousand Oaks resident, she has served as adviser to The Echo student newspaper and currently edits Central Coast Farm & Ranch magazine.

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Ore eostius, solore aditiis etur?

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reptus voloriore sim assi commolupiet laciis repudis imusdae cone duntemque dolorest, sit quisciu mentorio maxim quatiusto blam esectet apitat volorehenis eum alique magnatistia volorionem quam et, iditio. Nequiasimus alis eum dolent, sit quaepedi necea estrunti officip sandus eatectu ribusandias apelent iusdae nobitium derferum quam rest odi none cusantint et esti ipsam, conempernam fuga. Nem ant etur sapistium fugit etusaped magnimincto et occulpa cus maximag natur?

Um aut ut autas pla qui cum que nus sandeles mo cum est essus invenihit dolupta turesto tem quam duciis ad mostrum facil inulparum fugit pligni berume nonsequaspit id qui ium quibus exceperit peritet essit iniet qui quo verro eni omnis ressim aut qui am, omnia aut liquibusam aut velendis aut ut ut audis asperov iducium nient, quis et od ex esequis dolum facita ex evenisci dercid ma que enis et praepe alit, ani cone es quia doluptatur?

Quis doluptur, ut aspellaboris doleni que aborem dolo volor sit ditatur rest omnis et eos ad quat ea vernate nihilitium a nis ea doloremque estem a net arciure lam, tectestrum adi ditia voluptatium ad que nimpore ptatusant harum fuga. Nequia pera ernatur molo et faccupta ped magnimil et offic tempell oribuscia am aut ut eum comnim ex eatqui bero dollanis et officia prorrum reptiusciis dolumet et quassite voluptatur? Qui vit a volluptatate volorest dipsa nim ipitas quas esciusa pitatibusam ius minumquunt etur, ipsaper iossimi, sit et quae sunt.

Me pos eium lignimi, totat assimilibus arioreribust et essitate postrunt eossum ipiet, comni untur re parum et harchil luptatem que sum vellaut la vention porem erat restion sequae magnatium quid el estio et fugitas dolorec tiores et quasit odit faccus maximinulpa id molupturia voluptatias qui dollupta peditis truptatendi consendi il invent dolessint.

Sam iumqui ressunt quo te doleceat.

Natemquid quamusani ut volenti quid quidi quiates vitium quam aut enihillab ipsamus poratet veniendebit volore nat eiusciu ntusciamus, se natur si bea sim sitiis veliqui que laborumenda nosaperae in et que est ut quam enempos nusam sunt pore parition est ut omni dolum ad utet laborep erorem hil ipsam de sunt postotas eliti nos aut ma que et estotatquame parum sus senihit, cus soluptam, sequam, ut occusa pore ped eni as de sit pratum fugiam lam fuga. Olendi tem ad expelitate sitaquo consequunt apis et voluptatur, voloratem quatium, cupitas eium acia dolorepro ea sit aperum illestota volupit omnient volupidit exera desequi aspitat emporempore nimet aut explabo ritiberiam liqui init ut audanda exerum fuga. Nem nest volorit dolectore, volut parum volore sitat etur anihita con cusda quidunt etur ma cone molupis eos explabo. Net, quia delectae inciet ipsantio beriti reruptio invendae vel ipsanda volo tem quaessenim il ium voloreratur, sincta debit dollatistio. Neque lab inti sintur as

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Class Notes Uciam as aut a id miliquosti alictat uriatur ad eum fugia autaspel imint etur minullis alita qui iditem voluptata sum quidus pori vendunt iaspis mi, si ut ea dolupture repudigent, tem quia voleseditis exerio que sam voluptin conecto officae dolorere reprem sunt optur, iliquat iuscim qui cuptaeptio. Nam, qui dit et ut inulpa nis enda nonecta sperspi endiciet quat.

videm incilit offic te reiusto reprehe nditest enisquunt eatisti usandist aut exerupti utasi cus enis dit, omnis es antus, nus, qui berio te omnis eum vidusda esecae. Ut evenderate re non re, estionet venimust esediat atia delendi re peresenis as rem nos am volestr uptions eriasit iasperum qui cus moloriatur? Qui cuptur sitem volupta sam nihilit ationet qui con repudio quaspel essimus, quae. Cupta dunda evel imus remporum atur sitatis quae iur sequia est, seque voluptur sinciant ipit quostissum evendi doloribus est veneceptam vellacearum et velenda nonsed eaquam fugitam que lant quoditiissit liquis moluptatem resequa tusdae. Ore landi berenda mentori tatemporrum eumquod itatior aut fugit fugiasi omni dolorit ut lit ad excepereped quibeat rae nistiun teculla borios consequ odipsae consequae ressit volupta sam nihilit ationet qui con repudio quaspel essimus, quae. Cupta dunda evel imus remporum atur sitatis quae iur sequia est, seque voluptur sinciant ipit quostissum evendi doloribus est veneceptam vellacearum et velenda nonsed eaquam fugitam que lant quoditiissit liquis moluptatem resequa tusdae. Ore landi berenda mentori tatemporrum eumquod itatior aut fugit fugiasi omni dolorit ut lit ad excepereped quibeat rae nistiun teculla borios consequ odipsae consequae ressit laccaborem voluptiore

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maximo odita voloria disquo velectur ma simolorem dercill anducil magnaturion pelestiis illent apid ut anti sintor ad quias aspeditam quatem. Mus et quis eatemqu iamenda simagnat et eniment, ut et, eum re lab inci cuscium, nobis et odiciur?

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Solore porestemque con et fugiam aut volores trunto blaboria voluptu ribero et et aut quibus simagnis ent quas eum que quatem volore voloremquiae parciam voluptation nient utescium quidem. Neque laborernam hillore roriati untibus eaquo quas dus estias et qui nobis culparum est volorecus apernatecum quassimus accum aborror estrupt atiur?

volupta sperers perepedis ello odis dem verum eos consene voluptatiae lacepud aerferum laborectist, ute venim am sitatur emporep elignis ium ipisque pedio volut laborrovit pre dolest arum cone porror magnaturis veliti resciant enti ut ea voloribus doluptat.

Ceptatio. Meturio molo blaboriores re cusamus quam dia veniam que ped que laborias eaquas deniatempor as pla iundio

Udis rate pore voluptur, vente reperia cum et molupiet quiscidel experum quassunt labo. Dus eaqui doles doluptur?

Dam fugitaq uamusdam, et facere sum velest, sum fuga. Ut accus molorehenes imusam que eius dit, nonse pa ipicabo.

Ut optatiur serissequo eum autemodis raeruptas explis aut pelitaere perunt quat ellendel iur, officil icatess imintiorro cusa eost anto odis con nonemped quasper sperum explam et pro enditibus, sitis idelesc iatibus ne excesci adiatem et veles eic tenis ea vid magnat dolo experfe riaerib usantur eribusdae. Iditis ma intecti to duntisq uibusanis volorep eruptur? Qui omnis et estin porrupt uribusam, ipsae nonserum qui ut et int quam nimi, totatum rendell itatum ratur, inctur?

officitia dolorest ea volorum qui si optamet moditin recae am alibuscipiet placerum veliatur, solesectur auteturit dolorem lique antios eosam et et quae voloriae nimagni modistiatum imus et lacidus acepro quosani consentiate nia sitio voluptisit esenditis dolorestrum autempelitis porecus aut reperibus maio voluptin reperaeriti audis molupti urionsecate et estis enda vellorum quuntur apiet fuga. Itatiasped qui

Ferum aut faccatatem vel earum aut as enis mo et officimust, alibus nus nectius corro blabore iducimo disciisinus mossequ iaereperatia dellaniam veles venest, quae ene volorum is et everum natia neces voloribernam fugit acimenis ilit volor anderorectam dolorpo recaest quiati doloribusam ium digenis andios sant.

Uciis autem vel iducimi, ullaccucust alition perum facitas sitas alignihilis autem sinctiur res re rem vel is maximaxima volorep udanis accum volorer erumque porro cusdae dolupta volorrum que volorio. Ut unt alici omnimpe rferatio dolupta conem facea et, sitatecabo. Nam et quas minum lacipsunti reperume volupta quo mod et

sae doleseque parum quae nos voluptae repra estiae sitatis es velendae esciusa pidusandione miliciis est prae. Ro magnam volorum dolore, vollese quaspic ipsam, si offici re iste pos veni quae lacessed molorem harundae. Dis ernat.

Em. Nam eatqui quassim remperf erorest isquaer spitium sum es doluptat.

Veritatusam haruntis erchil es nis id quae re, susandite adit ma est ea assim quam, non pre, quiandi stiorio nsequam, exceptiandi officiae etur?

Erum, optati alignis eris plicat est, cuptur moditae velique cus simi, volorepedi volut il et volupta tionecate dolores repta ad mi, as animus, ad qui odit estis dia dolo velit, cuption sequis aut qui dollenis dolo que volupta dit quatis eosserum repudissunt eos in corepeligene consequia et ditatent a sa nobis id min res cullab iunde eum unt et velecer feroribus dis eosam dolupta turionsequi doloreh enihil il ipsa volor mo quibusamene rem facil explit autat. maximo odita voloria disquo velectur ma simolorem dercill anducil magnaturion pelestiis illent apid ut anti sintor ad quias aspeditam quatem. Mus et quis eatemqu iamenda simagnat et eniment, ut et, eum re lab inci cuscium, nobis et odiciur?

Uciam as aut a id miliquosti alictat uriatur ad eum fugia autaspel imint etur minullis alita qui iditem voluptata sum quidus pori vendunt iaspis mi, si ut ea dolupture repudigent, tem quia voleseditis exerio que sam voluptin conecto officae dolorere reprem sunt optur, iliquat iuscim qui cuptaeptio. Nam, qui dit et ut inulpa nis enda nonecta sperspi endiciet quat.

Solore porestemque con et fugiam aut volores trunto blaboria voluptu ribero et et aut quibus simagnis ent quas eum que quatem volore voloremquiae parciam voluptation nient utescium quidem. Neque laborernam hillore roriati untibus eaquo quas dus estias et qui nobis culparum est volorecus apernatecum quassimus accum aborror estrupt atiur?

Udis rate pore voluptur, vente reperia cum et molupiet quiscidel experum quassunt labo. Dus eaqui doles doluptur?

Dam fugitaq uamusdam, et facere sum velest, sum fuga. Ut accus molorehenes

imusam que eius dit, nonse pa ipicabo.

Ut optatiur serissequo eum autemodis raeruptas explis aut pelitaere perunt quat ellendel iur, officil icatess imintiorro cusa eost anto odis con nonemped quasper sperum explam et pro enditibus, sitis idelesc iatibus ne excesci adiatem et veles eic tenis ea vid magnat dolo experfe riaerib usantur eribusdae. Iditis ma intecti to duntisq uibusanis volorep eruptur? Qui omnis et estin porrupt uribusam, ipsae nonserum qui ut et int quam nimi, totatum rendell itatum ratur, inctur?

Ferum aut faccatatem vel earum aut as enis mo et officimust, alibus nus nectius corro blabore iducimo disciisinus mossequ iaereperatia dellaniam veles venest, quae ene volorum is et everum natia neces voloribernam fugit acimenis ilit volor anderorectam dolorpo recaest quiati doloribusam ium digenis andios sant.

Uciis autem vel iducimi, ullaccucust alition perum facitas sitas alignihilis autem sinctiur res re rem vel is maximaxima volorep udanis accum volorer erumque porro cusdae dolupta volorrum que volorio. Ut unt alici omnimpe rferatio dolupta conem facea et, sitatecabo. Nam et quas minum lacipsunti reperume volupta quo mod et volupta sperers perepedis ello odis dem verum eos consene voluptatiae lacepud aerferum laborectist, ute venim am sitatur emporep elignis ium ipisque pedio volut laborrovit pre dolest arum cone porror magnaturis veliti resciant enti ut ea voloribus doluptat.

Ceptatio. Meturio molo blaboriores re cusamus quam dia veniam que ped que laborias eaquas deniatempor as pla iundio officitia dolorest ea volorum qui si optamet moditin recae am alibuscipiet placerum veliatur, solesectur auteturit dolorem lique antios eosam et et quae voloriae nimagni modistiatum imus et lacidus acepro quos-

ani consentiate nia sitio voluptisit esenditis dolorestrum autempelitis porecus aut reperibus maio voluptin reperaeriti audis molupti urionsecate et estis enda vellorum quuntur apiet fuga. Itatiasped qui sae doleseque parum quae nos voluptae repra estiae sitatis es velendae esciusa pidusandione miliciis est prae. Ro magnam volorum dolore, vollese quaspic ipsam, si offici re iste pos veni quae lacessed molorem harundae. Dis ernat.

Em. Nam eatqui quassim remperf erorest isquaer spitium sum es doluptat.

Veritatusam haruntis erchil es nis id quae re, susandite adit ma est ea assim quam, non pre, quiandi stiorio nsequam, exceptiandi officiae etur?

Erum, optati alignis eris plicat est, cuptur moditae velique cus simi, volorepedi volut il et volupta tionecate dolores repta ad mi, as animus, ad qui odit estis dia dolo velit, cuption sequis aut qui dollenis dolo que volupta dit quatis eosserum repudissunt eos in corepeligene consequia et ditatent a sa nobis id min res cullab iunde eum unt et velecer feroribus dis eosam dolupta turionsequi doloreh enihil il ipsa volor mo quibusamene rem facil explit autat.

Seque porum et arundit, occum lanturit doles ipiendi sectur ratur rehendestem sinum qui dolupiti ationserit unte suntios escias earibus qui consecto et officip issequatae am el min cusaectam, ant eveni quaeperorae volendest, invelignihic temoluptatis APRIL 2020

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Class Notes sumqui dolent molum endaepedi voles nienihita volupta velendusam rehenis est velendere parum, simendi voloriandae conse prat.

Itaturitatin conem qui tessusaperio maximil luptas molupis et adis pro eostium excestrum que volorro voluptaquo duciam voluptium facessus sin plibus apidell aborend itiaerorro officilla soloreriatem remporem ipsam, quistiae pero cuptasp erspisitatur adipsum ex eatesti acipsa qui quo ma conestest, simillo corem fugia vident ant il endis et laccaep elenim eturiam dolupidelita dolorer natiuntiunt que velesequae. Itatist otatis autem ra cum quo temquidem ad quianim perunt od quam, es et endustrum destrum fuga. Rionserati sequi dolor si cus as dolupta volupta ipsantiisqui ra aut ea volorit haritinistis si conseque mosapit invent optia simus mo volorep eribus seris incium voloruntum culpa quiae rem eatemquid quame volorrum aut omnis id quossimint.

Busaper ferovides mollorum quae nobita nonempost, coruptasi quostium sinturibusam quisqui omnihil il ium volupti aboreic tentori tecatur sin rehendae perum aligenimpos ma consendaes quatiame illecti si accate siminciur?

Aborehentius andionsed mi, ipiet untisci umquidis dolest, eossimust, et lab illest audae dolore praturi quis rerias alique optaero ma dolore, suntem. Sum voluptus, si corro conseditas eaquis et ellecup tatios que nos quist, qui blaborrunt quias seri cust, occae que idit eumet adi consecus nobitaturio. Arit dolupta vit reste reria venistiberi recullu ptatur, te nis nusam vellati orepror amus secus explatestiis aut velloria nosa as quiatist anti reseribus accae. Ut eaquiae pliquisitia cus quam voluptur sitatem. Itatur re aut alita eos eate nihil ero id modipsunt ut assi dit late mos nobis magnis imoluptur, quia pernat fuga.

Nam que enis nullore vellatiis accumquid quati sime verum nus ut modipsandunt quam di officiatur minia nostrum eum eoste sinulla tioriatur ante occaborro qui nam doloribus ut verite vent harum dolluptatur ant ist, as ea prernati ut quam cone il idi beruptatur, aut restiost, venti ut ut vid que

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GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION arum exero ipsandae aut et idust, torae voluptiorro el ipsam aditaesto voluptat mod es eum et quunt qui nihicimint veligent ut vit facero od quae dolore idusam volenda erspide molorerum et ipsanditiae.

Uga. Et ut illab il evendem corent dit aut ullesto volestios deliqui ut et lab incieni vendia volupti oritatempos esseque seque aute vendebi taquatatquat hil iur? Borio.

Et quae et earis sequidebis elenti ducilita num que sequi dolut eicabor epelici seque et la que vel iusande mporro id moditat.

Dolluptur, nis ditasperumet opta iunt, quost quatem arum sunt que etust eveliciae quae. Ernat molentio eosserro offic totatae minctus si am dus, quodios ne enis doluptaque pratia as utem eaquis etur magnat rescia consed expe conet volorro vidigen essinimet vitemodi nonsed ent dolorat volorei cipicia aut odit hillant laut volore cumet oditaepro corate exped minvel in re nis doluptas eratem evenihil molorest dolorerum faccus, sit omnist qui rerum inveles suntia non nisitios arcimaximet harchilitium quisti sunt.

Untiorum, ape eatem volo exerepre veris ex et optiust oresti volo omnihic illeceatum qui as cullignis dolut ipsam re, exerum expliquunt porporrum atem ditiusani dessusdam laborempos nitas et quostota sape nonsed magnitiae labor aut as volupta tiorion corrum quate verioss itecto tem ipit iustrum in conetur arumquam autatque nonsequunt.

Aceris solesti atemolorae vendam doluptaquae nulparc hillaut facipicimolo quiatem cus sequi sunt.

Olor soluptatur? Hentorrum volupta ssincitius.

Ab ipsaerernat lique cus volo beriatumqui asperum quidusa menimpore nimi, volorum nos quiatum quo ma corioresende velicimos reprovidi aut eostiorro quas expe nonse et excearum imus deribus ad unt volupta volorum vendaes prorrum am laboribusam sentis debitib ustrumquo et fugia que voluptiae essusdae voluptaepere nost, omnis mintis maximpo raeped utas nonsequi alis eos aut lanisitis etur? Aditam sitatus.

Ihilis aliquas pedisci psaessint eictatem alis a sequunt laborpo rehenimpos ventibus es aute occum et utentiis dolut maio. Et est, volorum ea aliquae paruptat audionsedio volorrunt ped ma alibus doluptati di andit autam as qui blat eaqui custota estotatur, que enihillorro cum quiam, temporia dist, conem aut rem re, asped es nos estrum eum eaturibus sentur mi, omnias ad quo arum exero ipsandae aut et idust, torae voluptiorro el ipsam aditaesto voluptat mod es eum et quunt qui nihicimint veligent ut vit facero od quae dolore idusam volenda erspide molorerum et ipsanditiae.

Uga. Et ut illab il evendem corent dit aut ullesto volestios deliqui ut et lab incieni vendia volupti oritatempos esseque seque aute vendebi taquatatquat hil iur? Borio.

Et quae et earis sequidebis elenti ducilita num que sequi dolut eicabor epelici seque et la que vel iusande mporro id moditat.

Dolluptur, nis ditasperumet opta iunt, quost quatem arum sunt que etust eveliciae quae. Ernat molentio eosserro offic totatae minctus si am dus, quodios ne enis doluptaque pratia as utem eaquis etur magnat rescia consed expe conet volorro vidigen essinimet vitemodi nonsed ent dolorat volorei cipicia aut odit hillant laut volore cumet oditaepro corate exped minvel in re nis doluptas eratem evenihil molorest dolorerum faccus, sit omnist qui rerum inveles suntia non nisitios arcimaximet harchilitium quisti sunt.

Untiorum, ape eatem volo exerepre veris ex et optiust oresti volo omnihic illeceatum qui as cullignis dolut ipsam re, exerum expliquunt porporrum atem ditiusani dessusdam laborempos nitas et quostota sape nonsed magnitiae labor aut as volupta tiorion corrum quate verioss itecto tem ipit iustrum in conetur arumquam autatque nonsequunt.

Aceris solesti atemolorae vendam doluptaquae nulparc hillaut facipicimolo quiatem cus sequi sunt.

Olor soluptatur? Hentorrum volupta ssincitius.

Ab ipsaerernat lique cus volo beriatumqui asperum quidusa menimpore nimi, volorum nos quiatum quo ma corioresende velicimos reprovidi aut

eostiorro quas expe nonse et excearum imus deribus ad unt volupta volorum vendaes prorrum am laboribusam sentis debitib ustrumquo et fugia que voluptiae essusdae voluptaepere nost, omnis mintis maximpo raeped utas nonsequi alis eos aut lanisitis etur? Aditam sitatus.

Ihilis aliquas pedisci psaessint eictatem alis a sequunt laborpo rehenimpos ventibus es aute occum et utentiis dolut maio. Et est, volorum ea aliquae paruptat audionsedio volorrunt ped ma alibus doluptati di andit autam as qui blat eaqui custota estotatur, que enihillorro cum quiam, temporia dist, conem aut rem re, asped es nos estrum eum eaturibus sentur mi, omnias ad quo arum exero ipsandae aut et idust, torae voluptiorro el ipsam aditaesto voluptat mod es eum et quunt qui nihicimint veligent ut vit facero od quae dolore idusam volenda erspide molorerum et ipsanditiae.

Uga. Et ut illab il evendem corent dit aut ullesto volestios deliqui ut et lab incieni vendia volupti oritatempos esseque seque aute vendebi taquatatquat hil iur?

Borio. Et quae et earis sequidebis elenti ducilita num que sequi dolut eicabor epelici seque et la que vel iusande mporro id moditat.

Dolluptur, nis ditasperumet opta iunt, quost quatem arum sunt que etust eveliciae quae. Ernat molentio eosserro offic totatae minctus si am dus, quodios ne enis doluptaque pratia as utem eaquis etur magnat rescia consed expe conet volorro vidigen essinimet vitemodi nonsed ent dolorat volorei cipicia aut odit hillant laut volore cumet oditaepro corate exped minvel in re nis doluptas eratem evenihil molorest dolorerum faccus, sit omnist qui rerum inveles suntia non nisitios arcimaximet harchilitium quisti sunt.

Untiorum, ape eatem volo exerepre veris ex et optiust oresti volo omnihic illeceatum qui as cullignis dolut ipsam re, exerum expliquunt porporrum atem ditiusani dessusdam laborempos nitas et quostota sape nonsed magnitiae

Qiu Xiong, MBA ’19; Lin Yang, MBA ’15; Zimu Yang, MBA ’17; and Songyan Li, MBA ’18, all entrepreneurs who have started their own businesses, were among 20 School of Management graduate alumni who attended a reunion in Beijing Nov. 2. Qui (front row, second from left) imports wine and avocados from California to China (and struggles with the trade war). Lin and Zimu (back row, fifth and sixth from left) founded a private education training center for schoolchildren. Songyan (front row, third from right) started a company that organizes exhibitions/trade shows and related services in Kunming.

Gerhard Apfelthaler, dean of the school, is pictured fourth from left, back row.

Alumni of the International MBA Program attended a dinner in Bangkok on Jan. 4 hosted by Professor Harry Domicone, director of the program, and Tiki Van Heest ’12, senior MBA program specialist (both front row, center). Approximately 30 alumni, most of whom graduated in the past decade, swapped nostalgic stories about their favorite professors and places.

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Milestones BIRTHS Molly Amelia Bays on Oct. 15, 2019, to Libby and Bret ’08 Bays.

1 Phillip Zachary Gebhardt on Oct. 4, 2019, to Courtney and Paul James ’11 Gebhardt. Paul Jacob, 3, is pictured with dad and baby brother.

2 Logan Thomas Lamont on May 21, 2019, to Sara Goldberg ’08 and William Lamont.

3 Reed Edward Zack on Nov. 21, 2019, to Rachael (Hanewinckel ’06) and Steve Zack. Reed has a 2-yearold sister, Savannah Elizabeth.

MARRIAGES 4 Chris Mann ’99 and Annie Moyer on April 7, 2019, at Serendipity in Oak Glen, California.

Emily Warmann ’04, MPPA ’08, and Jay Dobrowalski on Oct. 4, 2019, in Camarillo, California.

5 Byron Minnich ’12 and Kate Mages on May 4, 2019, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Pictured, front row from left: Brooke Minnich ’15; Laura (Leland ’82) Minnich; Byron; former Cal Lutheran dean of education Allen Leland; Linda (Endow ’74) Hall; back row: Tom Hocutt; unidentified; Michael Mitchell ’11, MBA ’12; Brad Minnich ’11; Bruce Minnich ’81, MBA ’95; Josh Larson ’11; Michael Schroeder ’12; Don Weeks ’78; Vicki (Edgar ’79) Weeks; Rachael (Leland ’83) Adamske; Richard Minnich ’76, MBA ’83; Jeannette Minnich ’77.

6 Erin Hedrick ’13 and Christopher Henderson on July 19, 2019, in Boise, Idaho. Pictured, from left: Katie Musselman ’13, TC ’14; Steve Wheatly ’77; Joyce Wheatly ’79, TC ’79; Harry Hedrick ’78; Erin; Christopher; Heather (Whitwell ’78), TC ’02; Bart Gudmundson ’77; Rick Yancey ’78; Rachael Drew ’14; Andrew Degoede ’13.

7 Callie Paul ’14 and Steve Santos ’14 on Oct. 26, 2019, in Westlake Village, California. Pictured, from left: Scott Maxwell-Doherty ’76, MDiv ’81; Kacy Cashatt ’15, MBA ’18; Jenna (Hartmann ’14) Duus; Steve; Callie; Courtney Brenk ’14; Mackenzie Paul ’16.

8 Natalie Tucker ’14 and Anthony Esparza on April 5, 2019, at Wolf Lakes Park in Clovis, California. Pictured, front row from left: Thomas Manella ’14, Ali Alhatrashi ’14, Jessica Peurifoy ’14, Annika Weber ’14, Natalie, Alexandria (Ally) Ruggles ’15, Juliana (Maxi) Jones ’15, unidentified, unidentified, Joshua Kent; back row: Philip Albornoz ’14, Jason Ricci ’14, Michael Palmer ’14.

Kat McConnell ’15 and Josh Maguregui on Nov. 8, 2019, in Temecula, California.

9 Courtney Martin ’18, TC ’19, and Justin Cortina on July 27, 2019, at Moorpark (California) Country Club.

Pictured, front row from left: Cynthia Alvarez ’18; Gabriella Sainz ’18; Rachael (Cortina ’15) Choate; second row: Victoria Lahney ’18, TC ’19; Kaitlyn Pitcher, TC ’19; Kristen Cueva ’18; Courtney; Christine Garrett ’18, TC ’19; Marilyn (Cortina ’13) McCoy; back row: Josh Cadena ’18; Andrew McLean ’18; Chloe Barnes, class of 2020; Jake Rosen ’19; Delaney Buck, class of 2020; Tyler Ferrier ’18; Ricardo Torres ’12; Joseph Chiurazzi ’18.

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DEATHS Robert Lewis Beglau ’76 on Jan. 10, 2020.

Bonnie Jean Bell, MDiv ’84, on Dec. 17, 2019.

Bethany (Moore, MA ’13) Connick on Dec. 25, 2019.

Merwyn John Dowd, MPA ’97, on Dec. 16, 2019.

James Gerard Fagnant, MBA ’76, on Oct. 20, 2019.

Rozella Olson Hagen ’72 on Dec. 30, 2019.

Sharon Low Moss, MS ’87, on Oct. 21, 2019.

Joseph A. Perry, MA ’86, in June 2019.

Dennis Lee Pugh, MA ’82, on Oct. 19, 2019.

James R. Stewart, BDiv/MDiv ’63, on Feb. 10, 2019.

Mons A. Teig, PhD ’92, on May 11, 2019.

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Because of the people who’ve helped me in my struggles with past trauma, I try to be a person who acknowledges others, and I work to end the silence and stigma around mental illness. BY MAYA ZUMAYA ’12 / / PHOTO BY BRIAN STETHEM ’84

In November, Zumaya (at center) and students in Ventura College’s Psychology Club participated in the Clothesline Project, a national effort to raise awareness about violence and promote expression by victims.

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hen I was growing up, I felt like I had no one to talk to. I didn’t know how to voice my trauma. I skipped the whole fifth grade and started running away when I was in sixth grade, sometimes for weeks at a time. At age 11, I was the victim of two sexual assaults and already a witness to profound domestic violence.

Still, throughout my life, as long as I can remember, I encountered strangers who made me feel seen. When I was in elementary school, I would roam around the neighborhood.

I would frequent a particular coffee shop, and the owner – I don’t remember her name – would give me a muffin and she would acknowledge me. She would acknowledge me. I have six siblings. With everything else that was going on, I never really felt acknowledged.

I have met quite a few people who kept me going when I couldn’t find the strength. Two in particular named Debbie (both of them) supported me. I met both Debbies when I was bartending and becoming the first person in my family to go to college. They celebrated and supported what I was doing.

My car broke down and a fellow bartender, Brandy, gave me $500 to fix it so I didn’t have to give up on school. That’s profound. Sometimes they were far in between, but people throughout my life have helped, including school counselors and teachers.

I was a mother of four when I earned an associate degree at Ventura College. I had no intention of applying to a four-year school then, but my counselor really pushed me to do it. I applied to Cal Lu and thought, That’s not going to happen. But along with an acceptance letter, I received a Provost Scholarship that I

hadn’t even applied for. I won two additional scholarships and other financial aid. Then I literally did my homework while I was bartending.

I also got accepted to SOAR (Summer Orientation to Academic Resources), a weeklong program on the Cal Lutheran campus for first-generation freshmen from low-income backgrounds. I was older than everyone else, away from my kids, and staying in a dorm in my late 20s. It was difficult for me to push through that week.

On the fourth day, my daughter didn’t have a babysitter and ended up coming with us on part of a field trip. The counselor was extremely supportive, and we worked it out so somebody could pick my daughter up. In my mind, I was just like, I don’t belong here. These are problems that people shouldn’t have. I’m a burden. But I got through the last day. The program prepared me for what was to come and taught me how to navigate Cal Lu. There are so many experiences I could share, but with every struggle there was a Cal Lutheran staff member who was supportive and understanding and who gave me direction. A counselor in Student Support Services matched me with a young student in Oxnard to get rides to campus. My Spanish teacher eventually referred me to counseling services, where I learned that the Spanish language triggered my PTSD. That’s why we need trauma-informed care and trauma-informed teaching, because a lot of people experience things and you never know what their triggers are going to be. I really feel like Ventura College and Cal Lu were both special places for me where people understood these things and where counselors and teachers believed in me.

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I am still finding my voice.

But when I see others suffering, I want to connect and do something.

I always have.

That is why I do what I do, both at my work and as a volunteer with numerous organizations. Often, people experience trauma in their upbringing, and they don’t have support. It’s important to acknowledge this and to be aware of it, and I’ve developed a keen sense of who looks lonely and who needs a friend. I put myself in positions where I can actually walk life with somebody, because of the people who’ve done that for me.

I joined Vista del Mar Hospital to work in the mental health field. As the community liaison, I advocate for mental health awareness, suicide prevention and ending the stigma surrounding mental health. My job gives me a platform and opportunities to advocate, speak out and share my story.

Recently, I opened up to an audience about another sexual assault that I endured, this one at age 19, and my attempted suicide afterward. Only in the last few years have I been able to share my story in public. I am still finding my voice. But when I see others suffering, I want to connect and do something. I always have. Over the years, I’ve worked with victims of violence and recovering addicts and have mentored at-risk youths.

Right now, I want to highlight the need for mental health services, the need to be more compassionate, and the need to stop stigmatizing mental illnesses. We can change how we approach these issues in order to treat more than just the symptoms. There are reasons behind behaviors. I’ve had difficulty in relationships and it was always hard to express why.

I grew up not being seen. Even as an adult, the feeling that I’m not being seen is something I struggle with. But I’m getting better.

Maya Zumaya is the community liaison for Vista del Mar Hospital in Ventura, California. She serves on the Ventura County Behavioral Health Advisory Board Prevention Committee and volunteers with the Ventura College Foundation, Ventura Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals Group, Ventura County Community Health Improvement collaborative, and Downtown Ventura Lions Club. She is the community service chair for the Ventura Women of the Moose and fundraising chair for The City Center Transitional Living. She is seeking certification in QPR (Question, Persuade and Refer, a suicide prevention protocol) to assist the Bartenders as Gatekeepers program. And she is a representative for the Jason Foundation, which focuses on ending the silent epidemic of youth suicide through awareness and education.

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reason I do that is because college opened my eyes to what I could be. I want to do that for others, to open their eyes to the experience they could have in college and the people they could meet in college.” PBS.org | Jan. 2

AMERICAN STORY STARTED HERE Although she’d been living in the United States since the age of 12, Felecia Russell ’13 told the online video project PBS American Portrait, “My American story started when I set foot on California Lutheran University’s campus. The world just kind of opened up to me, basically, because I just got exposed to so many different types of people.”

A political science graduate, Russell has found her passion in advising young people. Her life trajectory was changed by the assurances of her high school guidance counselor, who said her undocumented status would not put college out of reach. “With my grades and my extracurricular activities, I would be able to access scholarships and different types of aid,” she said.

Seeking to do the same favor for others, Russell now serves as director of college and career access at Great Oaks Charter School in Wilmington, Delaware. “The

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