{"id":541,"date":"2021-05-03T12:59:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/?p=541"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:51:14","slug":"part-1-meet-simran-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/2021\/05\/03\/part-1-meet-simran-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 1: Meet Simran &amp; April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Discussing the intersection of career and heritage.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sat Sri Akal (Greetings in the Punjabi-Sikh Tradition)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/Simran-Kaur-Colbert-photo-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-544\" width=\"214\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/Simran-Kaur-Colbert-photo-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/Simran-Kaur-Colbert-photo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/Simran-Kaur-Colbert-photo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/Simran-Kaur-Colbert-photo-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/Simran-Kaur-Colbert-photo.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption>Simran Kaur-Colbert<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Simran Kaur-Colbert and I am a proud APIDA PhD Candidate at Miami University. Through these series of blog posts, I will share my narrative on overcoming social stigmas along with positive and negative stereotypes as it pertains to determining my career interest in becoming a higher education professional. In particular, I discuss how my Punjabi-Sikh culture informs my research, service, and teaching interests as a PhD Candidate. My journey to a career in higher education was not linear and involved detours in and out of the private (Insurance\/Finance) and public sector (Elementary School Education\/Department of the Army). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Magandang araw! (&#8220;Good Day!&#8221; in Tagalog, National language of the Philippines)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/robles-april-500x750-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-545\" width=\"169\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/robles-april-500x750-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/robles-april-500x750-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/robles-april-500x750-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/files\/2021\/04\/robles-april-500x750.jpg 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption>April Robles<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I identify as a Filipina American, First Generation born in the United States of America and First Generation college student.&nbsp; My initial aspirations when going to college was to major in Nursing.&nbsp; Afterall, it is a family tradition to work in the healthcare industry. I have pictures of me playing doctor. I volunteered my summers to work in a local hospital. My Mom is a retired Pharmacist.&nbsp; I was born in the hospital that my Mom worked at.&nbsp; I thought it was my obligation and duty to my family to follow in their professional footsteps. I currently serve as the Director of Operations and Communications in the Center for Career Exploration &amp; Success.&nbsp; I have worked at Miami University for almost 14 years cumulatively, with 5 years in the Career Center.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tomorrow &#8211; Part 2: <strong>\u201cModel Minority\u201d Mutiny #IAmNotYourModelMinority<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Discussing the intersection of career and heritage. Sat Sri Akal (Greetings in the Punjabi-Sikh Tradition) My name is Simran Kaur-Colbert and I am a proud <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/2021\/05\/03\/part-1-meet-simran-april\/\" title=\"Part 1: Meet Simran &amp; April\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2308,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}