{"id":6657,"date":"2018-04-09T13:05:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2018-04-09T13:05:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:05:30","slug":"gina-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/shg2018\/gina-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Undergraduate Commencement Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An independent thinker, consensus builder, and informed expert, McCarthy served as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama administration. While there, she led efforts to meet historic public health and environmental protection goals at the agency, establishing the nation\u2019s Climate Action Plan and signing the Clean Power Plan, which set the first national standards for reducing power plant emissions. That plan signaled the nation\u2019s commitment to climate action and imparted momentum to the international Paris Climate Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, McCarthy was named a\u00a0fellow at the Institute of Politics\u00a0at Harvard Kennedy School and a Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at\u00a0Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,\u00a0where she is a professor of Public Health Practice and director of the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment.\u00a0McCarthy also works as an advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private equity fund that invests in wellness and sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Undergraduate Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gina McCarthy, a leading advocate for the protection of public health and the environment, will be the featured speaker for URI&#8217;s 2018 undergraduate commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":6666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shg2018"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}