{"id":1178,"date":"2025-08-13T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:32:30","slug":"meet-a-member-beth-rivas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/meet-a-member-beth-rivas\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet a Member: Beth Rivas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1176\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2083\/2025\/08\/Beth-Rivas-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2083\/2025\/08\/Beth-Rivas-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2083\/2025\/08\/Beth-Rivas-642x650.jpg 642w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2083\/2025\/08\/Beth-Rivas.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/>What department do you work in and what is your job title?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Administrative Officer, Cores in the School if Medicine, Basic Sciences<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long have you been a Vanderbilt employee?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>19 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long have you been a part of USAC and how has it impacted you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is my 4<sup>th<\/sup> year on USAC and my second year of Staff Life Co-Chair. I enjoy being a part of a group of passionate people who care deeply about our university and each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you enjoy doing to relieve stress?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love to travel and plan travel. I have visited 38 countries, and I would love to double that number.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could visit any country with no budget, where would you visit?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greece or Turkey.\u00a0 I have visited both several times.\u00a0 My favorite part about both countries is the cats.\u00a0 I bring cat food in my purse everywhere I go and feed all the cats that I see roaming around. Imagine the cats that I could feed with no budget!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been your favorite vacation you have ever been on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My favorite vacation was to Zimbabwe, where I hiked the breathtaking Victoria Falls and went on safari.\u00a0 Watching the elephants, lions, giraffes, hippos and other wildlife in their natural habitats was incredible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What skill or talent would you most like to learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would like to be fluent in another language.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you had an extra hour each day, how would you spend it? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hanging out with my cat, Isadora.\u00a0 I have had her for 18 years and she is my baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What department do you work in and what is your job title? Administrative Officer, Cores in the School if Medicine, Basic Sciences How long have you been a Vanderbilt employee? 19 years How long have you been a part of USAC and how has it impacted you? This is my 4th year on USAC and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9295,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meet-a-usac-member"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/usac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}