{"id":77307,"date":"2026-03-16T14:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=77307"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:52:49","slug":"in-the-spotlight-march-16-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-march-16-20-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: March 16-20, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inside@nau.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, or use\u00a0our\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/#.YEjwNWhKg2w\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">online submission form<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sara Rinfret<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs, was selected as a government champion for the government collaboration initiative Local Gov 250, being one of 11 chosen Arizonan public servants. Government champions are individuals involved in cities, counties, regional councils and state and federal governments who have made significant impacts in the realm of public service.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Department of Sociology assistant teaching professor\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ibrahim Berrada\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">recently published two academic papers. The first,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlaw.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-08\/Article%204%20-%20Berrada.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cA policy review and rhetorical analysis of neo-racist populist discourse on the UK-Rwanda partnership<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d was published in the Southwestern Journal of International Law and uses textual analysis software to measure anti-migrant rhetoric in speeches delivered by British government leaders from 2022-2024 during the U.K.-Rwanda partnership. The second paper, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journalindigenouswellbeing.co.nz\/media\/2026\/02\/Self-Evaluating-Financial-Literacy-Programming-Using-a-Culturally-Responsive-Indigenous-Framework-.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Self-Evaluating the Design of a Financial Literacy Program Using a Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation Framework<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u201d was published in the Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing and evaluates the design of a culturally responsive financial literacy program developed for Native American residents in the Southwest.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-march-16-20-2026\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs. Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu, or use\u00a0our\u00a0online submission form. Sara Rinfret, professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs, was selected as a government champion for the government collaboration initiative Local Gov 250, being one of&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77307","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\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}