{"id":164961,"date":"2020-10-07T06:50:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=164961"},"modified":"2022-06-22T08:28:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:28:21","slug":"brave-space-kelly-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/10\/brave-space-kelly-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Space: Kelly Ha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this installment of <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/09\/brave-space-series-will-uconn-dialogue-justice-equity-diversity\/\">the Brave Space podcast series<\/a>, we talk with Kelly Ha, a second-year Masters of Social Work student in the Individuals, Groups, and Family Practice concentration, as well as a student in the Certificate in Foundations of Public Health program. She is the daughter of a Vietnamese refugee, and the first member of her family to attend college. Today, she addresses her experiences as an Asian-American student at UConn, and what she\u2019s done to rally her peers behind <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/05\/msw-student-fighting-coronavirus-discrimination-online-campaign\/\">the #IAmNotAVirus campaign<\/a> on social media, which brings awareness to the anti-Asian bigotry and violence that followed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-164961-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kelly-Ha-and-Jes-Zurell-Brave-Space.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kelly-Ha-and-Jes-Zurell-Brave-Space.mp3\">https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kelly-Ha-and-Jes-Zurell-Brave-Space.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master&#8217;s of Social Work student Kelly Ha talks about her experiences as an Asian-American student in this first installment of the Brave Space podcast series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":164933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1715,1870,2235,92,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1902],"class_list":["post-164961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-impact","category-ssw","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-hartford","category-university-life","series-bravespace"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 23:15:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164967,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164961\/revisions\/164967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/164933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164961"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=164961"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=164961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}