{"id":23224,"date":"2013-08-20T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=23224"},"modified":"2013-08-20T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T20:05:51","slug":"entertainment-tonight-reporter-rocsi-diaz-to-headline-freshman-convocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/08\/20\/entertainment-tonight-reporter-rocsi-diaz-to-headline-freshman-convocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment Tonight reporter Rocsi Diaz to headline Freshman Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23202\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/08\/20\/entertainment-tonight-reporter-rocsi-diaz-to-headline-freshman-convocation\/rocsi-diaz-300-dpi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23202\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23202\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23202\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2013\/08\/Rocsi-Diaz-300-dpi-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocsi Diaz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rocsi Diaz\u2014<em>Entertainment Tonight<\/em> correspondent and former co-anchor of Black Entertainment Television\u2019s <em>106 &amp; Park<\/em>\u2014will help welcome Wright State University\u2019s freshman class.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz will be the featured speaker during Freshman Convocation, which begins at 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at the Wright State Nutter Center. Her talk, titled \u201cIt Takes a Village,\u201d will focus on cultivating common ground through community engagement and civic responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Honduras, Diaz moved to New Orleans with her family when she was a young girl. After graduating from college, she deejayed her way into the tough Texas and Boston radio markets before making her home at Chicago\u2019s Power 92 FM.<\/p>\n<p>She auditioned for Black Entertainment Television (BET)\u2019s <em>New Faces<\/em>\u00a0search and was selected as an on-air host, beating out more than 5,000 other competitors.<\/p>\n<p>From 2006 to 2012, Rocsi co-anchored (along with Terrence J),<em>106 &amp; Park<\/em>, BET\u2019s flagship show. Seen in 85 million households around the world, the show is one of television\u2019s most influential programs.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Rocsi joined <em>Entertainment Tonight<\/em> as a correspondent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocsi Diaz\u2014Entertainment Tonight correspondent and former co-anchor of Black Entertainment Television\u2019s 106 &amp; Park\u2014will help welcome Wright State University\u2019s freshman class. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/08\/20\/entertainment-tonight-reporter-rocsi-diaz-to-headline-freshman-convocation\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":23202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2048,725,715,2042,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-enrollment-management","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-offices","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23224","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23228,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23224\/revisions\/23228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}