Pacific Portraits: The People Behind the Scenes at Pacific University (Volume Three)

There’s a saying that if you build a fire on a hill, all sorts of interesting people will climb that hill to meet you, to hear your story or to tell one, or both. In these pages, the students brought the fire to a variety of locations on and off campus to meet interesting characters, staff some of us see on a daily basis but hardly know a thing about. We invite you to peer into these fires, once again, and gaze at the vivid lives of members of our Pacific community to hear a good story, and perhaps, inspire your own.

Photographs by Macie Akai, Tanner Boyle, Michelle Brown, Cody Burkhart, La'imana Grace,

Ellie Parker, Alyssa Pinter, and Dominic Sampaulesi.

Essays by Sophia Backus, Shelby Cokeley, Avery Kester, Patrick Lagier, Angel Martinez Rojas,

Rachel Savini, Kimberly Su, Julia Thomson, Stephanie Vanschijndel, and Ellie Whitlock.