{"id":1342,"date":"2022-11-28T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/?post_type=furman-update&#038;p=1342"},"modified":"2023-01-12T17:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T17:06:26","slug":"riley-fellows-in-the-news-november-28-2022","status":"publish","type":"furman-update","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/news\/riley-fellows-in-the-news-november-28-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Fellows in the News: November 28, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russell Booker <\/strong><em>(Upstate, Fall 2009), <\/em>executive director of the Spartanburg Academic Movement, has been appointed to serve as a member of the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3Epfzuh\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eileen Burkhardt<\/strong> <em>(Lowcountry, Fall 2017),<\/em> founding director of operations for Compass Collegiate Academy, was among those recognized in <em>Charleston Business Magazine<\/em>\u2019s 2022 Best &amp; Brightest 35 and Under. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3Ou88H4\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yendelela Neely Holston <\/strong><em>(Statewide, Spring 2021)<\/em> of Kilpatrick Townsend, received one of Corporate Counsel\u2019s 2022 Women, Influence and Power in Law awards. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3Xpk2pq\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent Jonas<\/strong> <em>(Lowcountry, Fall 2016)<\/em> was hired as the first COO of Sustain SC. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3GAL0Vm\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Pankau <\/strong><em>(Midlands, Spring 2013), <\/em>chair of the board for BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, received the Ambassador of the Year award from the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3gqEnKA\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Carlos Phillips <\/strong><em>(Upstate, Spring 2017),<\/em> Greenville Chamber president and CEO, was appointed as chair elect of the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3gsqQlF\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glenis Redmond<\/strong><em> (Upstate, Fall 2013) <\/em>was named the City of Greenville\u2019s first poet laureate. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3VkuPzC\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among those recognized in the <em>Free Times\u2019<\/em> 2022 Power List are <strong>JoAnn Turnquist<\/strong> <em>(Midlands, Spring 2013),<\/em> president and CEO of the Central Carolina Community Foundation; <strong>Melanie Huggins <\/strong><em>(Midlands, Spring 2018),<\/em> executive director of the Richland County Public Library;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rhonda Hunsinger<\/strong> <em>(Midlands, Spring 2020),<\/em> executive director of the South Carolina Philharmonic; and <strong>Della Watkins<\/strong> <em>(Midlands, Spring 2019),<\/em> executive director of the Columbia Museum of Art. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3gqkCCW\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Booker (Upstate, Fall 2009), executive director of the Spartanburg Academic Movement, has been appointed to serve as a member of the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee. Read more. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1343,"template":"","update-categories":[11,10],"class_list":["post-1342","furman-update","type-furman-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","furman-update-category-diversity-strategies","furman-update-category-riley-fellows-bulletin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-update"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-update-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update-categories?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}