This issue of the newsletter is dedicated to celebrating cherished colleagues. I have been reflecting on adrienne maree brown's remarks at the Equity Symposium. Drawing from her work as doula, she noted that just at the moment when the pain seems unbearable, something breaks and new life emerges. It can seem as if we are collectively at our own point of threshold. The colliding contexts of the past five years - COVID19, climate change, chronic poverty, persistent racism and misogyny, pervasive gun violence - have taken their toll on all of us. We are weary, and yet, I sense there is something just out of site, around the corner - a threshold through which we will pass and new life will emerge
Goodbyes are hard. We've been saying many goodbyes to colleagues over the past several years. Here, at the Washington Center, we have our own special goodbye. Rachel Homchick has taken a new position at Highline College. During her service to the center, she has made an indelible imprint with her stellar organizational skills, kind spirit, and thoughtful intellect. Please join me in expressing collective gratitude and congratulations to Rachel as she moves into the next phase of her career. I invite you to send a personal note by posting to
this padlet.
This is the last newsletter you'll receive for the 2021-2022 academic year. I look forward to picking up again when we return in Fall. I wish you all abundant time to spend with loved ones and looking after yourselves. I hope to see many of you at a
summer institute or two.
