Washington County Oral Histories

Marissa Williams oral history recording

An audio recording of an oral history of Marissa Williams, Pacific University Class of 2019, recounting memories of her time at Pacific as a college student. The main topic of the interview is how she perceived diversity, equity and inclusion issues at Pacific during the late 2010s, including: her work with the Center for Gender Equity (CGE) and its director, Martha Rampton; the controversy around CGE's posters advertising The Vagina Monologues play in 2018; and the beginning of the Student Multicultural Center. Other topics covered briefly in the recording include: becoming a Gender and Sexuality Studies minor; participation in Delta Chi Delta and Student Senate; serving as a First Year Seminar (FYS) student mentor; memories of campus after the election of President Trump in 2018; and how her experience at Pacific helped her current work in advocacy in the 2020s.

This is one of a group of recordings made during a reunion in October, 2024. The recording is accompanied by a transcript.

Williams, Marissa

Oct. 2024

Pacific University Archives Memory Lab

Pacific University

Student activities

Forest Grove, Oregon

1 audio file (11 min.)

English

PUA_OH_57

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Pacific University Archives

MP3

Johnson-Riley, Jenny