{"id":35,"date":"2018-03-12T13:42:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T17:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2018-06-12T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T17:44:33","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>About the Conference:<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The annual Vassar College Immigrant Youth Empowerment Conference (VC IYEC) intends on inviting about 100 high school students \u00a0and community representatives from the local area with the intention of providing a day full of workshops, speakers, and plenary sessions that seek to inform and empower youth about issues confronting the immigration community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 1st Annual Vassar College Immigrant Youth Empowerment Conference (VC IYEC) will take place at Vassar College on Saturday, September 22, 2018 from 9am until 3:30pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The conference theme for this inaugural year is \u201c<\/span><b><i>Stories of Resilience and Resistance<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Members of the VC IYEC Planning Committee:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Erin McCloskey, Professor of Education at Vassar College<\/li>\n<li>Jaime Del Razo, Professor of Education at Vassar College<\/li>\n<li>Erendira Rueda, Professor of Sociology at Vassar College<\/li>\n<li>Giselle Sanchez Huerta &#8217;18, Coordinator of the Vassar English Language Learner Outreach Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Conference: The annual Vassar College Immigrant Youth Empowerment Conference (VC IYEC) intends on inviting about 100 high school students \u00a0and community representatives from the local area with the intention of providing a day full of workshops, speakers, and plenary sessions that seek to inform and empower youth about issues confronting the immigration community. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/iyec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}