Brent Campbell
Associates degree with highest honors from Clark College
Brent Campbell has an associates degree with highest honors from Clark College and is currently an undergraduate of history and anthropology at the University of Washington. Though his primary interest is archaeology, Quintard Taylor's class African Americans in the West has piqued his interest in the African American experience especially in western America.
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