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VoFLC: Heather Shotton

VoFLC: Heather Shotton

AUDIO TRANSCRIPT:

My story of coming to Fort Lewis involves my family, my oldest daughter, and the good work that Fort Lewis is engaging in.

 So my oldest daughter took a tour and was being recruited to Fort Lewis, three, four years ago. And I was familiar with the campus and the work that was happening here in my own work around Indigenous education but had never visited Fort Lewis. And so our entire family came out with her to do a campus tour. And I think on that day, our entire family made a commitment to Fort Lewis, and have been keeping up with the good work that's happening.

And last year, when an opportunity arose with the Vice President of Diversity Affairs, I jumped at the chance to join Fort Lewis in and be a part of this important work. So my favorite campus story, I think, involves my own family, of course, and one of the things that I appreciate about Fort Lewis is that the families that are connected to Fort Lewis, it really becomes an intergenerational connection. And I can see that happening with my own family. 

My favorite campus story is from when we brought my oldest daughter Sloane to Fort Lewis to visit and she fell in love with the campus—watching my oldest child find a connection to campus and make a commitment to what she wanted to call home for the next four or five years and make that decision, and I remember standing out on rim drive over overlooking Durango and taking her photo and the excitement and joy in her face and, and her telling us that this felt like home.

And so I see that with a lot of our students too, and the way that they connect to campus and so I think that was the moment that our entire family fell in love with Fort Lewis. 

My name is Heather Shotton. I'm Vice President of Diversity Affairs at FLC.

 

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