{"id":29450,"date":"2023-12-20T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=29450"},"modified":"2023-12-20T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:18:34","slug":"lgbtq-champion-cindy-watson-79-featured-in-jacksonville-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/lgbtq-champion-cindy-watson-79-featured-in-jacksonville-news\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ champion Cindy Watson &#8217;79 featured in Jacksonville news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University psychology alumna Cindy Watson &#8217;79 is featured in a story about her advocacy work with LGBTQ+ youth. Beth Reese Cravey, a reporter for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/12\/19\/advocate-for-gay-jacksonville-youth-jasmyn-ceo-cindy-watson-retires\/71669199007\/\">Jacksonville Florida Times-Union<\/a>, pays tribute to the executive director and CEO of JASMYN, the Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network. Watson, who will retire from the nonprofit after 30 years, describes JASMYN&#8217;s work as a liberation journey, both for herself and the community it serves. Under her leadership, the organization now provides a safe space for 1,000 members of the LGBTQ+ community per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watson&#8217;s advocacy nonprofit grew from humble beginnings and an annual budget of $20,000. Now, JASMYN serves 1,000 LGBTQ+ youth each year with a $2.5 million budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":29455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,2447,48],"tags":[2450,601,2449,2448],"class_list":["post-29450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-jacksonville-florida-times-union","category-psychology","tag-jasmyn","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtq-youth","tag-sexual-minorities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}