{"id":682,"date":"2014-03-11T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=682"},"modified":"2014-04-01T22:54:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T03:54:26","slug":"wick-thomas-named-as-one-of-library-journals-2014-movers-and-shakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/682","title":{"rendered":"Wick Thomas Named as One of Library Journal&#8217;s 2014 &#8220;Movers and Shakers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wick\u00a0Thomas\u2014musician, librarian, activist, and GLBTRT member\u2014has been named one of\u00a0<i>Library Journal<\/i>\u2019s 2014 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lj.libraryjournal.com\/2014\/03\/people\/movers-shakers-2014\/wick-thomas-movers-shakers-2014-change-agents\/#_ \">Movers and Shakers.<\/a>\u201d For 13 years\u00a0<i>LJ\u00a0<\/i>has profiled \u201c50 or more up-and-coming individuals from around the world who are innovative, creative, and making a difference\u201d in its\u00a0March 15\u00a0issue. It\u2019s not the first notice of Thomas: he won a Creating Change award from the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce and was named Best Activist in Missouri twice by the KC alternative newspaper\u00a0<i>Pitch Weekly.<\/i>\u00a0One of his achievements is his work with young library users who wrote and published\u00a0<i>Unheard Voices,\u00a0<\/i>a teen literary and art zine. Hundreds of copies of last summer\u2019s first edition, featuring work of about 30 teenagers, were distributed to schools and libraries. The group plans on an annual edition. More about Thomas is in the\u00a0<i>LJ\u00a0<\/i>article and in\u00a0<i>GLBT News\u00a0<\/i>first \u201cpeople profile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently Thomas hit national news when he moderated a Kansas City-area spelling bee that ran out of words and had to reschedule two weeks later. The run-off between seventh-grader Kush Sharma and fifth-grader Sophia Hoffman went on another 29 rounds before Hoffman was stumped by the word \u201cstifling.\u201d Sharma\u2019s winning word was \u201cdefinition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wick\u00a0Thomas\u2014musician, librarian, activist, and GLBTRT member\u2014has been named one of\u00a0Library Journal\u2019s 2014 \u201cMovers and Shakers.\u201d For 13 years\u00a0LJ\u00a0has profiled \u201c50 or more up-and-coming individuals from around the world who are innovative, creative, and making a difference\u201d in its\u00a0March 15\u00a0issue. It\u2019s not the first notice of Thomas: he won a Creating Change award from the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}