{"id":84,"date":"2015-09-13T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T14:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/?p=84"},"modified":"2015-09-13T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T14:30:15","slug":"about-me-kara-shen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/2015\/09\/13\/about-me-kara-shen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kara Shen &#8211; Introductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! My name is Kara Shen and I am a senior in Quincy House studying Computer Science and Economics. I spent the last two summers working as a software engineer for a start-up in Cambridge and an advertising tech company in New York City. Outside of class, I became involved in Harvard National Model United Nations, Harvard College Consulting Group, and Student Mental Health Liaisons, but I&#8217;m now invested in our Women in Computer Science group on campus to help create community for women interested in STEM fields.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent a lot of the past three years learning a lot about computer science, economics, and other quantitative subjects, but as it&#8217;s my senior year and requirements are winding down, I saw this year as my last chance to delve into issues I&#8217;d always wanted to learn and discuss more about. The events of this past year mandated renewed conversations and reflection from everyone in the country, and I am really looking forward to taking a comprehensive look at the issues affecting the African American experience in this country, from matters of class and economics status to schooling and education.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that this class will give me the knowledge and vocabulary to speak as a more informed and critical citizen, and I am so excited to start the discussion with all of you! See you on Tuesday. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! My name is Kara Shen and I am a senior in Quincy House studying Computer Science and Economics. I spent the last two summers working as a software engineer for a start-up in Cambridge and an advertising tech company in New York City. Outside of class, I became involved in Harvard National Model &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/2015\/09\/13\/about-me-kara-shen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kara Shen &#8211; Introductions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}