{"id":1571,"date":"2014-07-07T15:16:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T15:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2018-05-09T14:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T14:59:37","slug":"july-2014-saa-scholarship-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2014\/07\/07\/july-2014-saa-scholarship-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2014 SAA Scholarship Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignnone size-medium wp-image-1572\" src=\"https:\/\/fiualumni-eastus.azurewebsites.net\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mp.jpeg-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"mp.jpeg\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Melissa Pierro<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FIU Degree:<\/span> B.S. in\u00a0Journalism and Mass Communication &amp; M.S. Speech Language Pathology<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Graduation Years:<\/span>\u00a02011 and 2013<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Profession:<\/span>\u00a0Speech Language Pathologist for\u00a0Broward County Public Schools<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Why she joined the FIU Alumni Association:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">I joined the FIU Alumni Association because I am so proud to be an FIU graduate.\u00a0The Alumni Association played a huge part in my success as an FIU student and now as a Speech Language Pathologist. During my undergraduate and graduate degrees at FIU, I served as a member of the Student Ambassador Association and held the title of Director of External Relations during my senior year. This program gave the me opportunity to step out of my comfort zone and network in my community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What does FIU mean to her:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">Without FIU, I would never be in the place of my professional career that I am in today.\u00a0\u00a0I am proud to say that \u00a0I am working in my dream profession and am a certified speech language pathologist for over 90+ children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How the scholarship affected her life:<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0I was fortunate to receive a Student Alumni Association Scholarship which helped me to complete my undergraduate degree in 3 years and start my master&#8217;s degree immediately after graduation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Pierro FIU Degree: B.S. in\u00a0Journalism and Mass Communication &amp; M.S. Speech Language Pathology Graduation Years:\u00a02011 and 2013 Profession:\u00a0Speech Language Pathologist for\u00a0Broward County Public Schools Why she joined the FIU Alumni Association:\u00a0I joined the FIU Alumni Association because I am so proud to be an FIU graduate.\u00a0The Alumni Association played a huge part in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[368],"tags":[366,250,258,342],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philanthropy","tag-philanthropy","tag-scholarships","tag-student-alumni-association","tag-student-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15332,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/15332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}