{"id":93614,"date":"2019-03-28T15:39:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T01:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=93614"},"modified":"2020-03-06T13:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:59:33","slug":"leeward-student-dream-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/28\/leeward-student-dream-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student selected to speak at national conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_42686\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vPyVcyjk_rU?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"SG President Marc Earley\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93623\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-national-conference-kahala-earley-1.jpg\" alt=\"student speaking at conference\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-national-conference-kahala-earley-1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-national-conference-kahala-earley-1-93x130.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/leeward-national-conference-kahala-earley-1-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marc Douglas Kahala-Earley speaking at <abbr>ATD<\/abbr> conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College<\/a> student was selected to share his journey with 2,300 attendees at the Achieving the Dream national conference, February 19&#8211;22 in Long Beach, California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marc Douglas Kahala-Earley<\/strong> was one of eight community college students chosen for the 2019 DREAM Scholars program. Participants attended conference sessions, participated in a plenary panel presentation and toured the city. The program culminated with a presentation by the DREAM Scholars.<\/p>\n<p>Kahala-Earley, the current president of the Associated Students of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Leeward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr>, wants to help others who are unable to help themselves. As an openly gay man, the 2016 elections sparked a light inside of him to be a voice for the voiceless.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If I can inspire others to stand up for themselves and if I can do that by standing up for them, then I&#8217;m going to do it,&rdquo; said Kahala-Earley. &ldquo;It was shortly after the election, I decided that I would go into politics one day and fight for those who can&#8217;t fight.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kahala-Earley was awarded a $1,000 scholarship by Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr>\u2019s Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society to help cover his educational expenses. Achieving the Dream covered his hotel costs and Leeward <abbr>CC<\/abbr> covered his travel expenses.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kathleen Cabral<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Douglas Kahala-Earley was selected to share his journey with 2,300 attendees at the Achieving the Dream national conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[349,65,660,71,56],"class_list":["post-93614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-asuh","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112740,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93614\/revisions\/112740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}