{"id":6612,"date":"2017-04-18T16:09:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/18\/marlanda-dekine-is-transforming-consciousness-and-community\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:56:33","slug":"marlanda-dekine-is-transforming-consciousness-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/marlanda-dekine-is-transforming-consciousness-and-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlanda Dekine is transforming consciousness and community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always wanting to know the why of things&#8211;not just this is the way things are, but\u00a0<em>why<\/em>\u00a0is this the way things are,\u201d says Marlanda Dekine in an article by Lillia Callum-Penso of <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/04\/14\/marlanda-dekine-transforming-consciousness-and-community\/100089678\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Dekine, a 2004 Furman University computer science-turned psychology major, is the cofounder of Spartanburg-based nonprofit Speaking Down Barriers, which works to expose and examine societal differences in order to build bridges within community. &#8220;The organization draws on both the rawness of spoken word poetry as well as the introspective push of counseling to foster a deeper awareness of self that pushes dialogue and community action,&#8221; says Callum-Penso.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always wanting to know the why of things&#8211;not just this is the way things are, but\u00a0why\u00a0is this the way things are,\u201d says Marlanda Dekine in an article by Lillia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-psychology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612","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=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}