{"id":5,"date":"2010-08-27T14:51:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/"},"modified":"2010-08-27T14:51:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:51:38","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6\" title=\"jade\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/files\/2010\/08\/jade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/files\/2010\/08\/jade.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/files\/2010\/08\/jade-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Hi!\u00a0 My name is Jade Silva and I am originally from Muscatine, Iowa.\u00a0 I am a first generation high school graduate and college graduate.\u00a0 I graduated from The University of Iowa in 2005 with my Bachelor of Arts in Spanish.\u00a0 During my years at Iowa I joined a historically Latina sorority that was founded on Iowa&#8217;s campus, Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc.; I was also a member of ALMA (Association of Latinos Moving Ahead), was an Opportunity at Iowa scholar and an Orientation Advisor.<\/p>\n<p>I came back to work for Iowa in 2009, after having worked in the HR field and for my sorority&#8217;s national headquarters after graduation.\u00a0 I truly enjoy speaking with high school students about coming to The University of Iowa and showing them the great opportunities that Iowa has to offer.\u00a0 Being a first generation college student, I understand that the college process can be confusing and I LOVE helping students find their way through the process, talk them through financial aid, housing and all the great student organizations to get involved with!<\/p>\n<p>For this year, I will be traveling to Muscatine and Louisa counties in Iowa; Quad Cities, Kane County and some Chicago schools in Illinois; San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you will enjoy my blogging as I travel throughout Iowa, Illinois and Texas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi!\u00a0 My name is Jade Silva and I am originally from Muscatine, Iowa.\u00a0 I am a first generation high school graduate and college graduate.\u00a0 I graduated from The University of Iowa in 2005 with my Bachelor of Arts in Spanish.\u00a0 During my years at Iowa I joined a historically Latina sorority that was founded on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}