{"id":6899,"date":"2015-02-09T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2015-02-08T19:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T23:00:56","slug":"mlk-leadership-awards-for-degraff-napier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/02\/09\/mlk-leadership-awards-for-degraff-napier\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK Leadership Awards for DeGraff &#038; Napier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our faculty colleague <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/degraff\/\">Michel DeGraff<\/a><\/strong> and to linguistics major<strong> Alyssa Napier &#8216;16<\/strong>, 2015 faculty and undergraduate honorees of <a href=\"http:\/\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/2015\/mlk-luncheon-0205\">MIT&#8217;s Martin Luther King Leadership Award<\/a>!!<\/p>\n<p>Michel, as readers of Whamit know well, is a founder and leader of the <a href=\"http:\/\/haiti.mit.edu\">MIT Haiti Initiative<\/a>, which has been working to actively promote the use of Krey\u00f2l in STEM education in Haiti. \u00a0Alyssa is a double major in Linguistics and Chemistry, a 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/2014\/shass-names-35-exceptional-mit-students-2015-burchard-scholars-1222\">Burchard Scholar<\/a>, and co-chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bwa.mit.edu\">Black Women&#8217;s Alliance<\/a>. Last November, Alyssa wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.mit.edu\/V134\/N54\/newburymarch.html\">an eloquent article<\/a> in the Tech about Ferguson, the Newbury Street march, \u0093Black Lives Matter\u0094, MIT and much more. We encourage you to read it!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to both!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our faculty colleague Michel DeGraff and to linguistics major Alyssa Napier &#8216;16, 2015 faculty and undergraduate honorees of MIT&#8217;s Martin Luther King Leadership Award!! Michel, as readers of Whamit know well, is a founder and leader of the MIT Haiti Initiative, which has been working to actively promote the use of Krey\u00f2l in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6926,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions\/6926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}