Clark College professor Steven Clark talks about belonging in three-part series

Washougal resident and Clark College biology professor Steven Clark found himself drawn to the concept of what it means to belong after watching the “Far from the Tree” documentary, based on psychology professor Andrew Solomon’s award-winning book, “Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity,” at the Liberty Theatre in Camas in 2019.

“The book struck a note with me because I thought of students who come into my office to talk about an assignment or something like that, and the conversation ends up being about the fact that they feel ‘far from the tree’ in some way or another, and often that is a source of uneasiness for them,” Clark said. “I think to myself, ‘I wish they didn’t have that burden in the slightest.'”