{"id":51484,"date":"2018-05-24T08:51:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=51484"},"modified":"2018-05-25T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T20:45:48","slug":"in-the-alumni-spotlight-may-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-alumni-spotlight-may-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Alumni Spotlight: May 25, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kudos to these alumni<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a spotlight to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p>E-mail your announcements to <a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>or use our <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/news-tip\/\">online submission form.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jennifer Cardoza<\/strong>, class of 2014, was selected as a 2018 Thomas R. Pickering graduate foreign affairs fellow. The fellowship offers students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to pursue a career in U.S. foreign service. Cardoza will complete internships at the U.S. Department of State and an overseas U.S. embassy. She will receive two years of financial support for her master\u2019s degree at Johns Hopkins University\u2019s School of Advanced International Studies, as well as mentoring and professional development during her fellowship.<a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-21-at-2.45.15-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51486 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-21-at-2.45.15-PM-300x223.png\" alt=\"Benjamin Bellorado, recipient of the 2018-19 Florence C. and Robert H. Lister Fellowship\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-21-at-2.45.15-PM-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-21-at-2.45.15-PM.png 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeff Meilbeck<\/strong>, CEO of Northern Arizona Intergovernmental Public Transportation Authority (NAIPTA), received the Arizona Transit Association\u2019s Transit Individual of the Year award. Meilbeck has increased the organization from operating with three routes serving 100,000 riders each year to having eight routes serving more than 2 million riders annually. Meilbeck will retire in November as NAIPTA\u2019s first CEO.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benjamin Bellorado\u00a0<\/strong>was selected as the 2018-19 Florence C. and Robert H. Lister Fellowship recipient by the Research Institute at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. The fellowship supports students working on their dissertation in southwestern archaeology, anthropology or ethnology. Bellorado received his master\u2019s in anthropology from NAU in 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-alumni-spotlight-may-24-2018\/\">Kudos to these alumni Do you have a spotlight to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to Inside@nau.eduor use our online submission form. Jennifer Cardoza, class of 2014, was selected as a 2018 Thomas R. Pickering graduate foreign affairs fellow. The fellowship offers students from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to pursue a career&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1774],"class_list":["post-51484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-alumni-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}