{"id":61,"date":"2018-02-09T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/?p=61"},"modified":"2018-02-09T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:20:40","slug":"student-spotlight-alex-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/2018\/02\/09\/student-spotlight-alex-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Alex Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why Non-Profit Management?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/files\/2018\/02\/ALewis-crop-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/files\/2018\/02\/ALewis-crop-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/files\/2018\/02\/ALewis-crop.png 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I first came to UW-Whitewater as a freshman, like most of my peers, my degree\u00a0was undeclared.\u00a0 I knew I had an interest in people, specifically how they internalize their environment, justify their worldview, and how this influences their relationships to others.\u00a0 I had a desire to understand people with backgrounds unlike my own.\u00a0 I started in psychology, dabbled in sociology and theology, and eventually fell into the business school.\u00a0 Now I am in my final year pursuing a major in general management.<\/p>\n<p>Management offers job versatility across all industries, and yet, I am still unsure which direction this education will carry me. I was ecstatic when the course <em>Foundations of Nonprofit &amp; Nongovernmental Organizations<\/em> became an option for my senior electives. \u00a0To understand people, their needs, goals, and their own purpose of life is important to me.\u00a0 I want to help those individuals that otherwise might not have been given a chance to be heard, and I, in the meantime, will make the personal connections and experiences I would not find anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>The scope of the non-profit sector is vast, but wielding my education as my weapon, I hope to find my place in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Non-Profit Management? When I first came to UW-Whitewater as a freshman, like most of my peers, my degree\u00a0was undeclared.\u00a0 I knew I had an interest in people, specifically how they internalize their environment, justify their worldview, and how this influences their relationships to others.\u00a0 I had a desire to understand people with backgrounds unlike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49738],"tags":[493732,2022],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-spotlight","tag-courses","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/nonprofit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}