{"id":2680,"date":"2017-01-17T15:33:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T20:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2017-01-17T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T20:34:30","slug":"alumniae-tuesday-vds-vanderbilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/2017\/01\/alumniae-tuesday-vds-vanderbilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni\/ae Tuesday: VDS Alumni @ Vanderbilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vanderbilt Divinity Alumni serve in churches, organizations, and institutions across the country and around the world. Some, however, choose after they graduate to make a transformative impact right here on campus. This series features VDS alumni who work at Vanderbilt, showing the range of work a theological education can prepare one to do. We hope you\u2019ll enjoy getting to meet them!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2685\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1109\/2017\/01\/Jackson_Karasheila007.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Karasheila Jackson, MDiv &#8217;16<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Program Coordinator, Development and Alumni Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How is your work at Vanderbilt shaped by having pursued a theological education?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VDS was my first formal introduction to preferred gender pronouns and the need for inclusive language. I believe that I have become much more aware of language that can be perceived as derogatory and harmful to others on a broader scale than I was before I attended VDS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who was your favorite professor (or what was your favorite course) at VDS and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think my favorite course was <em>Exodus in America: Black Christians &amp; White Jews in Interreligious Dialogue<\/em> with Dr. Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas. This course made me take a hard look at my own racial prejudices and how my biases have aided in my self-isolation at times. I was introduced to people who helped to organize and finance the Civil Rights Movement that I was unaware of before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you share with prospective students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If at all possible, come and visit VDS before you make a final decision as to where you would like to dedicate the next few years of your life. By visiting you will not only get a feel for the school, you will be able to get a small glimpse of what Nashville has to offer you as well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt Divinity Alumni serve in churches, organizations, and institutions across the country and around the world. Some, however, choose after they graduate to make a transformative impact right here on campus. This series features VDS alumni who work at Vanderbilt, showing the range of work a theological education can prepare one to do. We hope&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,1],"tags":[1055,509,986],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumniae-tuesday","category-news","tag-vdsalumlife","tag-alumniae","tag-alumniae-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}