{"id":422,"date":"2016-12-09T17:11:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/?p=422"},"modified":"2016-12-09T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:11:31","slug":"sarah-mmari-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/2016\/12\/09\/sarah-mmari-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Mmari, &#8217;97"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-423\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/files\/2016\/12\/sarah-mmari-97.jpg-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"sarah-mmari-97-jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"273\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the first time in 20 years, Sarah Mmari \u201997 (center) visited the IWU campus with her mother (left) and a family friend. Mmari, a native of Tanzania, returned to her home country after finishing her coursework in business administration in December 1996.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIWU gave me the tools to start my life in Tanzania,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you graduate from here, you have the confidence to be able to do anything.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After working in banking for several years, Mmari now owns a small logistics company with her husband. Her visit to campus included a serendipitous meeting with Admissions Counselor Nicole Chlebek \u201916, who studied abroad in Tanzania as a student. Chlebek recorded the visit with her phone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(Photo by Robert Frank III \u201914)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 20 years, Sarah Mmari \u201997 (center) visited the IWU campus with her mother (left) and a family friend. Mmari, a native of Tanzania, returned to her home country after finishing her coursework in business administration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/2016\/12\/09\/sarah-mmari-97\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/files\/2016\/12\/sarah-mmari-97.jpg.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1997classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}