{"id":11454,"date":"2012-03-15T16:46:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=11454"},"modified":"2019-08-07T16:04:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T20:04:10","slug":"urban-affairs-professor-named-a-woman-of-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/03\/15\/urban-affairs-professor-named-a-woman-of-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban affairs professor named a Woman of Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11456\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/03\/15\/urban-affairs-professor-named-a-woman-of-influence\/subban\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11456\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11456\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/03\/Subban.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Jennifer Subban\" width=\"157\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Subban, Ph.D., was one of seven women honored at the YWCA Dayton\u2019s Women of Influence awards.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wright State University associate professor of urban affairs Jennifer Subban, Ph.D., was one of seven area women honored March 15 at the YWCA Dayton\u2019s annual Women of Influence awards.<\/p>\n<p>Both in and out of the classroom, Subban strives to ignite a passion in her students for service and community engagement. She is the campus executive director of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and the director of the Student Philanthropy Project.<\/p>\n<p>Subban also leads a study abroad service-learning trip to her homeland of South Africa. During the program, Wright State students facilitate a workshop for high school students, empowering them to improve their communities through service projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was able to accompany Dr. Subban to Durban and work with high school students through the community leadership workshop,\u201d says her nominator.\u00a0 \u201cThrough this experience I was able to open my eyes and see what a difference a person can make in his or her community. Dr. Subban has inspired these children to create change among a devastated society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subban\u2019s study abroad program is linked to Ubuntu LEAD, a nonprofit organization that she started with her husband to develop South African youth and increase their opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Subban came to Wright State in 2001 from the University of New Orleans, where she earned her doctorate in urban studies and also worked as a faculty member. She holds a master\u2019s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of New Orleans and a bachelor\u2019s degree in geography and environmental science and mathematical statistics from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Subban, Ph.D., was one of seven women honored at the YWCA Dayton\u2019s Women of Influence awards. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/03\/15\/urban-affairs-professor-named-a-woman-of-influence\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":11456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,724,2023,711,725,747,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-awards","category-faculty","category-faculty-staff","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11454"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11461,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454\/revisions\/11461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}