{"id":83,"date":"2012-08-21T17:12:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T00:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/seeds\/?p=83"},"modified":"2014-07-02T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:30:36","slug":"dana-bays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/2012\/08\/21\/dana-bays\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Bays, Assistant Dean of Students for International Student Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bays is currently serving her second year on the Board of Directors of <strong>Abby\u2019s Closet<\/strong>, a non-profit organization (started by Bays\u2019 childhood best friend) that provides 2000 free prom gowns each year to high school teenagers, many of whom do not have the financial means to purchase a prom gown. As a board members, Bays is involved as a grant writer, volunteer coordinator, and secretary. Bays explains that for many of these teenagers, owning a beautiful prom dress that fits them can be an enormous confidence boost and an opportunity they never expected to have.<\/p>\n<p>Bays is also a member of the <strong>Global Partnership Team<\/strong> at her church and traveled to Kosovo to build relationships and engage with the young artist community in Kosovo. Last summer, Bays also traveled to Namibia through <strong>World Teach<\/strong> to train students and teachers in basic computer literacy, HIV\/AIDS awareness, and English.When asked about the current state of student activism on campus, Bays responded, \u201cI never cease to be amazed by what students who are involved here do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bays is currently serving her second year on the Board of Directors of Abby\u2019s Closet, a non-profit organization (started by Bays\u2019 childhood best friend) that provides 2000 free prom gowns each year to high school teenagers, many of whom do&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/2012\/08\/21\/dana-bays\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Dana Bays, Assistant Dean of Students for International Student Services<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43],"tags":[81,80],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-development","category-womens-empowerment-2","tag-clothing","tag-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}