{"id":10171,"date":"2022-05-10T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T22:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=10171"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:29:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:29:20","slug":"rachel-afua-ansong-graduate-student-achievement-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/rachel-afua-ansong-graduate-student-achievement-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel (Afua) Ansong: Graduate Student Achievement Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rachel (Afua) Ansong, Ph.D. and MBA, has written a dissertation on West African Adinkra symbols as a material practice of Black diasporic cultural survivance.\u00a0An accomplished poet and winner of multiple grants and writing residencies, Afua has published three chapbooks as well as poems in numerous literary journals.\u00a0Her many contributions to intellectual life at URI include organizing The Caged Bird Sings Poetry Festival in 2021 and mentoring students from underrepresented backgrounds.\u00a0Afua\u2019s mentors describe her as \u201ca natural leader and a tremendously motivated and resourceful writer-scholar\u201d whose poetry is \u201csingular and important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graduate Student Achievement Award<\/strong><br \/>\nRachel (Afua) Ansong (English)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-achievement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10222,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions\/10222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}