{"id":291,"date":"2016-12-07T18:51:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/?p=291"},"modified":"2016-12-07T18:51:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T00:51:25","slug":"nicole-chlebek-16-and-sarah-mmari-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/2016\/12\/07\/nicole-chlebek-16-and-sarah-mmari-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Chlebek &#8217;16 and Sarah Mmari &#8217;97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/12\/sarah-mmari-97.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/12\/sarah-mmari-97-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"sarah-mmari-97\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/12\/sarah-mmari-97-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/files\/2016\/12\/sarah-mmari-97.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">in 20 years<\/span><\/span>, 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. \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 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. (Photo by Robert Frank III \u201914)<\/p>\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\/2016classnews\/2016\/12\/07\/nicole-chlebek-16-and-sarah-mmari-97\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2016classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}