{"id":56251,"date":"2018-04-23T00:45:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56251"},"modified":"2018-04-23T00:45:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:45:41","slug":"meet-haley-pilgrim-penns-first-black-woman-president-of-gapsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56251","title":{"rendered":"Meet Haley Pilgrim: Penn&#8217;s first black woman president of GAPSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2018\/04\/grad-school-first-black-female-president-upenn-penn-philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Meet Haley Pilgrim: Penn&#8217;s first black woman president of GAPSA<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Pennsylvanian<\/a><br \/>\n2018-04-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NaomiElegant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Naomi Elegant<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2018\/04\/grad-school-first-black-female-president-upenn-penn-philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snworksceo.imgix.net\/dpn\/d491eb20-7686-446b-bd33-c17cbcbf15dc.sized-1000x1000.png\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haleygpilgrim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haley Pilgrim<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Sociology Ph.D. candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/haleygpilgrim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haley Pilgrim<\/a> was elected to be the president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/assembly.cornell.edu\/shared-governance-cornell\/graduate-and-professional-student-assembly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graduate and Professional Student Assembly<\/a> on April 4, marking the group\u2019s first black female president in its 70-year history.<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrim, who will take up the post on May 1, is the current co-president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/upennbgapsa.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Graduate and Professional School Assembly<\/a> and chair of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Leadership Council. Pilgrim is also the first IDEAL Council representative to be elected president of GAPSA.<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrim said that \u201cthe most exciting thing\u201d after winning the election was being able to celebrate with the BGAPSA community&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2018\/04\/grad-school-first-black-female-president-upenn-penn-philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociology Ph.D. candidate Haley Pilgrim was elected to be the president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly on April 4, marking the group\u2019s first black female president in its 70-year history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,8,394,20],"tags":[10773,28503,28502,28501,28500,10772,2923],"class_list":["post-56251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-daily-pennsylvanian","tag-gapsa","tag-graduate-and-professional-student-assembly","tag-haley-pilgrim","tag-naomi-elegant","tag-the-daily-pennsylvanian","tag-university-of-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56253,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56251\/revisions\/56253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}