{"id":529,"date":"2021-05-27T19:46:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/?post_type=furman-update&p=529"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:47:03","slug":"riley-fellows-in-the-news-may-27-2021","status":"publish","type":"furman-update","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/news\/riley-fellows-in-the-news-may-27-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Fellows in the News: May 27, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pictured: Mary Sharp is sworn in as the president of the South Carolina Bar. Photograph courtesy of the South Carolina Bar.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Sidney Evering<\/b> (Midlands, Spring 2012)<\/i> of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, LLP was named Orangeburg city administrator. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jon Pedersen<\/b> (Midlands, Spring 2019)<\/i> was named dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Oklahoma State University. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mary Sharp<\/b> (Lowcountry, Fall 2013) <\/i>of Sharp Law Firm, LLC is now president of the South Carolina Bar. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Octavia Williams-Blake<\/b> (Lowcountry, Fall 2012) <\/i>was appointed to First Reliance Bank\u2019s board of directors. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Riley Institute wants to celebrate your highly effective program making a difference in South Carolina public education. Riley Fellow Cathy Stevens<\/b> (Upstate, Spring 2020), <\/i>director of the Institute\u2019s WhatWorksSC program, has a special video message<\/a> just for Riley Fellows about this year\u2019s WhatWorksSC Award. Apply by June 11 at www.furman.edu\/wwsc-2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upstate Riley Fellows, mark your calendars for October 20! Celebrating what\u2019s possible when individuals and organizations work together to make the Upstate an inclusive place to work and live, the 2021 Upstate Diversity Leadership Awards will be held in conjunction with the Greenville Chamber\u2019s fifth annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Summit. Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See what graduates of our Diversity Leaders Initiative have been up to lately and join us in congratulating them on their achievements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":566,"template":"","update-categories":[11,10],"class_list":["post-529","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\/529","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\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-update-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update-categories?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}