{"id":2430,"date":"2015-10-29T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2019-02-17T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T18:27:31","slug":"annual-poverty-conference-attracts-283-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/2015\/10\/2430\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Poverty Conference Attracts 283 Participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Poverty-conference-2015-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2431\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Poverty-conference-2015-a.jpg\" alt=\"Poverty conference 2015 a\" width=\"488\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Poverty-conference-2015-a.jpg 488w, https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Poverty-conference-2015-a-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stetson University hosted the 2nd annual Poverty and Homelessness Conference on October 23, 2015.\u00a0 A student panel (below) provided testimony on the plight of homelessness in the U.S. According ti conference founder,<strong> Rajni Shankar-Brown<\/strong>, participants included educators, activists, and members of the community. Dr. Shankar-Brown is associate professor, director of Education Graduate Programs, and the Jesse Ball DuPont Chair of Social Justice Education at Stetson University. The conference is a grassroots collaborative between Stetson University and Volusia County Schools to increase the social-emotional, well-being and academic success of children and youth. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalvoiceforfamilies.org\/homeless-students-in-america-what-are-we-doing-to-help\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Rajni-Poverty-conference.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2432\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Rajni-Poverty-conference.jpg\" alt=\"Rajni - Poverty conference\" width=\"489\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stetson University hosted the 2nd annual Poverty and Homelessness Conference on October 23, 2015.\u00a0 A student panel (below) provided testimony on the plight of homelessness in the U.S. According ti conference founder, Rajni Shankar-Brown, participants included educators, activists, and members of the community. Dr. Shankar-Brown is associate professor, director of Education Graduate Programs, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,40,41,146],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-excellence","tag-high-impact-practices-hips","tag-inclusive-excellence","tag-international-learning","tag-stetson-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/brown-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}