{"id":647705,"date":"2013-03-19T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=d8baa6f9d064db63511c49c7c6a21355"},"modified":"2013-03-19T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:45:55","slug":"encouraging-young-women-to-become-the-leaders-and-advocates-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647705","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging Young Women to Become the Leaders and Advocates of Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, in honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/02\/28\/presidential-proclamation-womens-history-month-2013\">Women&rsquo;s History Month<\/a>, we welcomed a group of high school students to participate in a conversation with a mentoring panel at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Our panel included luminaries from a diverse range of fields: Tamika Catchings, professional basketball player, and founder of Catch the Stars Foundation, which works with at-risk youth. Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America and a lifelong advocate for civil rights, workers, and women. Abbe Raven, President and CEO of A&amp;E Networks. And Suni Williams, an astronaut who took recently took charge of the International Space Station. &nbsp;Alex Wagner, News Anchor at MSNBC, moderated the panel.<\/p>\n<p>Each woman talked about their trajectory, their role models and influences, and gave advice on success in their career. The young people in the audience asked questions such as, &ldquo;What makes a strong woman?&rdquo; and &ldquo;What do you do during moments of self-doubt?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful opportunity to have an honest dialogue between generations, and I left feeling so encouraged by the stories of the panelists and the voices of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>This event was one in a series to honor Women&rsquo;s History Month. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/18\/president-obama-hosts-celebration-womens-history-month-white-house\">followed by a celebration with President Obama<\/a> and the First Lady in the Residence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/19\/encouraging-young-women-become-leader-and-advocates-tomorrow\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, in honor of Women&rsquo;s History Month, we welcomed a group of high school students to participate in a conversation with a mentoring panel at the White House. Our panel included luminaries from a diverse range of fields: Tamika Catchings, professional basketball player, and founder of Catch the Stars Foundation, which works with at-risk youth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}