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Understanding the Washington State Legislature: A Quick Guide

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Advocacy efforts require a basic understanding of the Legislative process. This guide is designed to get you oriented within Washington’s State Legislature so you can advocate for PLU with confidence. The Basics: How Washington is…

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Here’s How You Can Prepare for Lobby Day

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What is Lobby Day? We’ve been hyping up Lobby Day these past couple of weeks. But what is it exactly? Lobby Day is an opportunity for you, as students, to voice your concerns about cuts to Washington State financial…

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Register for PLU Student Lobby Day

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Advocacy isn’t just a concept—it’s an action. As we explored in How to be an Advocate, using your voice is about building strength, connection, and resistance alongside the people around you. It is about turning…

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What You Need to Tell a Good Story

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How to Tell a Story That Protects Student Aid During our storytelling workshop this semester, we shared some tips on how to become a better storyteller. (Remember, you are already one!) What is Your Power…

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How to be a Storyteller

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What is Storytelling? Storytelling is connecting the numbers to a face, data to a person. It helps connect with others on a human level, in a form that cannot be replaced. Your stories are not just your…

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How to be an Advocate

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What is Advocacy? Advocacy – public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy as defined by Oxford Languages. But that’s the fancy people. The clinical and straightforward definition of what advocacy is. Advocacy, to me,…

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