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- Title:
- Jamie McGee interview
- Interviewee:
- McGee, Jamie
- Interviewer:
- Hua, Joan, 1989-
- Date Created:
- 2019-11-06
- Role:
- Student
- Department:
- School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science
- Subjects:
- veteran military student parent community outreach mentorship diversity youth services at-risk girls Black Student Union (BSU) student organization MLK Jr. Unity Breakfast Emily Ignacio Michael Honey Trista Huckleberry Luther Adams Martin Luther King Jr. civil rights movement
- Biography:
- Jamie McGee was Jamie Glaze when she attended University of Washington Tacoma and graduated in 2007. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in a military family in Germany. She graduated from high school in 1987. Before returning to school for college, she served in the Army, was stationed in For Lewis, and worked in law enforcement at Port of Tacoma. By the time she enrolled at UW Tacoma, she was 28 years old and a single parent. Throughout her time as a student, she remained active in church and as a mentor, regularly hosting and supporting exchange students, youth, and adults in difficult circumstances. In 2006, she started her nonprofit Girls Reclaiming Individual Purpose in Society (GRIPS), which she co-directed with her UW Tacoma classmate Chana Lawson. She holds an MA in psychology from Chapman University.
- Description:
- In this interview, Jamie McGee discusses her personal and educational trajectory and her transformative experience at UW Tacoma. She recounts in detail classes she took from UW Tacoma professors, including Emily Ignacio, Michael Honey, Trista Huckleberry, and Luther Adams. In the second half of the interview, she describes the origins of the now annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Unity Breakfast, which she and her classmates in the Black Student Union began to organize in late 2006.
- Location:
- United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma United States--Washington (State)--Fort Lewis
- Type:
- Sound; Text; StillImage
- Format:
- cpd
- Preferred Citation:
- University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington Tacoma Library, UWTOH201902