When Meg Garvin ’91 saw a job listing seeking a victims’ rights lawyer for the National Crime Victim Law Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School, she’d never heard of victims’ rights.

As a home visitor for behavioral health nonprofit LifeWorks NW, Ben Reuler ’99 has a mission to secure safe and affordable housing, work, and food for families who are fleeing domestic violence or struggling with addiction and poverty.

To explore the world through the lens of one’s most intense passion is an exceptional gift. On their own, with only a rough sketch of a road map, Watson Fellows often experience a raw moment of truth that shapes the rest of their lives.

How a few courageous students led a Tacoma Pride movement on campus that spread across the city

Two very different strangers came up to speak to Scott Higashi '91. He was taking part in two separate events to honor Puget Sound's 36 Japanese American students who were sent to internment camps in 1942, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

In 1989, he and fellow students were planting cherry trees in front of the Student Union Building—a ceremony of remembrance and regret that replaced the trees first planted in 1940 as a gift from the Japanese Student Club—when a woman approached.   

Peter Collins ’02 is living the Airstream life—and loving it