{"id":1375,"date":"2023-02-07T15:02:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/?page_id=1375"},"modified":"2023-11-28T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T16:55:05","slug":"chris-gant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/about\/team\/chris-gant\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Gant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/chris_committee.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Gant\" class=\"wp-image-1322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/chris_committee.jpg 240w, https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/chris_committee-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Chris came to the US from Berlin, Germany in 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris was the Evaluation Program Manager for GEAR UP at the University of Michigan, School of Social Work, a federally funded college access program where she developed a strategic plan and built collaborations across university departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris supervised and coordinated the activities for several AmeriCorps VISTAS, work-study and UROP students, facilitated workshops for other university partners that provided&nbsp;tools on how&nbsp;to collect student data, and she developed a universal assessment tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Chris was the second Study Abroad Faculty Leader at the&nbsp;University of Michigan, Center for Global and Intercultural Studies\/Global Course Connections. In that position, she built relationships with universities in Germany and the Netherlands which teach urban-based social work for student internships. Chris infused comparative policies, identifying global issues, such as prostitution\/human trafficking; juvenile delinquency\/juvenile incarceration and immigration\/refugee crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Graduate Research Assistant, Chris worked at the National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan, supervising undergraduate students working on&nbsp;a&nbsp;longitudinal study of underrepresented students in STEM programs.<br>She has a Bachelor Degree in social work from Georgia State University and a Masters of Social Work from the University of Michigan majoring in Community Practice with a minor in Human Services Management (2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris came to the US from Berlin, Germany in 1992. Chris was the Evaluation Program Manager for GEAR UP at the University of Michigan, School of Social Work, a federally funded college access program where she developed a strategic plan and built collaborations across university departments. Chris supervised and coordinated the activities for several AmeriCorps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":44,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-single-column.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1375\/revisions\/2212"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodmichigan.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}