{"id":1158,"date":"2021-01-29T11:26:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2021-01-29T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:26:32","slug":"faculty-member-abha-rai-elected-to-leadership-role-in-south-asian-social-work-educators-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Faculty member Abha Rai elected to leadership role in South Asian Social Work Educators&#8217; Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luc.edu\/socialwork\/aboutus\/facultystaff\/raiabha.shtml\">Abha Rai,<\/a> Assistant Professor of Social Work, was elected to the role of Vice-President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cswe.org\/About-CSWE\/Governance\/Commissions-and-Councils\/Commission-for-Diversity-and-Social-and-Economic-J\/Affiliated-Groups\">South Asian Social Work Educators\u2019 Association \u00a0(SASWEA)<\/a>,\u00a0 an affiliated group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cswe.org\/\">CSWE<\/a> Commission on Diversity and Social and Economic Justice. The purpose of SASWEA is to provide a platform for social work educators and researchers who are interested in the South Asian region, South Asian population, and\/or are of South Asian origin for networking and collaboration. SASWEA comprises around 130 faculty and doctoral students who has roots in the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my honor to serve on this all women board with other esteemed colleagues who are equally committed to supporting the work of our members and creating new research and professional development opportunities for them\u201d, Rai noted, and added, \u201cAs an immigrant female scholar of color, I have often found myself in spaces that make me feel marginalized but through my leadership in SASWEA, it is my hope to provide mentorship and support to several others like me who may have had such difficult experiences\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1162 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/files\/2021\/01\/Rai_Abha_150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abha Rai, Assistant Professor of Social Work, was elected to the role of Vice-President of the South Asian Social Work Educators\u2019 Association \u00a0(SASWEA),\u00a0 an affiliated group of CSWE Commission on Diversity and Social and Economic Justice. The purpose of SASWEA is to provide a platform for social work educators and researchers who are interested in &#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-link btn btn-outline-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/?p=1158\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/socialwork\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}