{"id":52443,"date":"2017-10-11T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T15:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/?p=52443"},"modified":"2017-12-20T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:43:41","slug":"christensen-vocation-lunch-with-tina-maria-tavera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/2017\/10\/11\/christensen-vocation-lunch-with-tina-maria-tavera\/","title":{"rendered":"Christensen Vocation Lunch with &#8220;Tina&#8221; Maria Tavera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg Faculty and Staff, you are invited to attend the fall vocation lunch with &#8220;Tina&#8221; Maria Tavera, TRIO-McNair Scholars Director.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, November 15<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 11:15 am &#8211; 12:20 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Registration has closed for this event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More about our speaker:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-52445 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/10\/Tina-Headshot_72-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cTINA\u201d MARIA TAVERA\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/10\/Tina-Headshot_72-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/10\/Tina-Headshot_72-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/10\/Tina-Headshot_72.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maria Cristina (\u201cTina\u201d) Tavera has been the director of Augsburg\u2019s TRIO-McNair Scholars program since March 2008.\u00a0 Funded by the Department of Education, the McNair Scholars program helps income-eligible, first generation, and underrepresented students prepare for and matriculate to graduate school. Prior to her director role, Tavera was an Academic Advisor for Augsburg\u2019s TRIO-Student Support Services program for four years, and\u00a0has been working for and devoted to TRIO students for over 20 years. Tavera is an artist, independent curator, and activist who has exhibited at Augsburg; she is also one of the artists selected to create a public art piece for the Hagfors Center for Science,\u00a0Business and Religion.\u00a0 She sees parallels between her artistic efforts to decrease cultural alienation and expand society\u2019s artistic vision and her\u00a0passion for equal access to education. Her vocation is greatly\u00a0<span class=\"m_4496329794419366357gmail-s1\">influenced by her transnational upbringing between Minnesota and Mexico, as her<\/span>\u00a0scholarly research\u00a0specialization is in Latino and Latin American art.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Christensen Vocation Lunch is an event that strengthens the concept of\u00a0vocation\u00a0at Augsburg for faculty and staff by providing role models from within the community to share a presentation on their sense of call and life journey.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg Faculty and Staff, you are invited to attend the fall vocation lunch with &#8220;Tina&#8221; Maria Tavera, TRIO-McNair Scholars Director. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-52443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vocation-lunch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52443"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52549,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52443\/revisions\/52549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}