{"id":4886,"date":"2021-01-21T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/ed-psych\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2021-11-08T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:03:58","slug":"after-overcoming-abuse-navajo-educational-psychology-student-finds-her-way-back-to-earn-her-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/after-overcoming-abuse-navajo-educational-psychology-student-finds-her-way-back-to-earn-her-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"After overcoming abuse, Navajo Educational Psychology student finds her way back to earn her Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8195 size-uncropped-small\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/Cadman-768x512-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When she was in fourth grade,\u00a0<strong>Esther Cadman\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0teacher asked her a question that changed her life: \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a simple question every elementary school student has been asked, but for Cadman, this question opened the door to future possibilities, which was an idea she never had before: that she could be whatever she wanted. For that 10-year-old in Albuquerque, New Mexico, living in a home with alcoholism and domestic violence, that meant earning a doctorate.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here from NAU News: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/cadman-commencement\/\">Graduate Esther Cadman: After overcoming abuse, Navajo student finds her way back to earn her Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When she was in fourth grade,\u00a0Esther Cadman\u2019s\u00a0teacher asked her a question that changed her life: \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d It\u2019s a simple question every elementary school student has been asked, but for Cadman, this question opened the door to future possibilities, which was an idea she never had before: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-psychology-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4887,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/4887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-educational-psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}