PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College’s Studium Generale program will present a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Thursday.
Erin Jones, former director of equity and achievement for the Federal Way School District and currently director of Advancement Via Individual Determination in Tacoma, will be the featured speaker at 12:35 p.m. in the college’s Little Theater at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Her lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a workshop for high school and college students, held in the Longhouse.
The workshop will provide students with an opportunity to engage in questions of the future of race relations.
Students from area high schools, including Sequim High School’s “Be the Change Club,” will participate.
Jones has been involved in education for 23 years as an athletic coach, a public and private school teacher, an instructional coach, a state assistant superintendent and a district executive.
She began her career in Philadelphia, moved to South Bend, Ind. and then to Washington state, where she has lived for 17 years.
Jones received the Most Innovative Foreign Language Teacher Award in 2007 while teaching at Stewart Middle School in Tacoma.
She was the Washington State Milken Educator of the Year in 2008 while teaching at Rogers High School in Spokane.
She received recognition at the White House in March of 2013 as a “Champion of Change.”
Her visit to Port Angeles is made possible through partnership with the Peninsula College Longhouse, the Shades of Color Club and the Associated Student Council.
For information on other Studium Generale programs, see www.pencol.edu or www.facebook.com/PeninsulaCollege.
