{"id":1152,"date":"2014-08-14T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2014-12-29T07:48:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:48:43","slug":"meet-marian-mays-an-rt-member-profile-by-tess-goldwasser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1152","title":{"rendered":"Meet Marian Mays!: An RT member profile by Tess Goldwasser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tess Goldwasser<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Marian has been a member of the GLBTRT for about a year. She was able to meet some of her fellow members at this year\u2019s ALA annual conference, and is interested in serving on a committee sometime in the future.<\/p>\n<p>She just finished a one year term in AmeriCorps as a Youth Engagement Specialist for Identity, an LGBTQ non-profit in Anchorage, Alaska. Through this position she planned, coordinated, and implemented all of Identity&#8217;s LGBTQ youth programming initiatives. She says, \u201cI am passionate about improving the lives of LGBTQ youth and providing them opportunities that were not given to me. I moved across the country to follow this passion, and it has been very rewarding to see the youth I work with grow.\u201d She recently began working as a librarian for the Anchorage Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Marian has been with her partner, Kat, for a year and a half, and they have two dogs, one cat, and a rabbit. Her hobbies include reading YA books, belly dancing, hoop dancing, hiking, and rock climbing.<\/p>\n<p>If Marian was an animal, she would be a big cat, because they are smart and get to laze around in the sun most of the day. If she could have a dinner party with 5 culturally or historically significant figures, living or dead, she would invite Rachel Carson, Alice Paul, Tupac Shakur, Buddha, and Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tess Goldwasser Marian has been a member of the GLBTRT for about a year. She was able to meet some of her fellow members at this year\u2019s ALA annual conference, and is interested in serving on a committee sometime in the future. She just finished a one year term in AmeriCorps as a Youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-people","category-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}