{"id":220276,"date":"2024-11-13T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=220276"},"modified":"2024-10-22T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:33:25","slug":"uconn-magazine-true-grit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/11\/uconn-magazine-true-grit\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: True Grit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>n a tight-knit Armenian enclave in Lowell, Massachusetts, Richard Juknavorian \u201995 (CLAS) grew up surrounded by a community of fierce matriarchs, immigrant mothers who juggled full-time jobs while keeping their families intact. \u201cA lot of these women escaped the 1915 Armenian genocide and thrived in America against all odds,\u201d he says. This early exposure to female resilience laid the foundation for his podcast, \u201cMeeting You Where You\u2019re At,\u201d in which Juknavorian talks to trailblazers, visionaries, and change-makers who draw from a similar well of uncompromising grit. These women are taking action and driving real impact \u2014 as advocates for child internet safety, nonprofit leaders uplifting women\u2019s causes, and champions of gender pay equity. Selecting just 10 standouts from his more than 90 insightful episodes to date was no easy feat for Juknavorian, but a common thread binds his picks together. These women don\u2019t just dream of changing the world \u2014 they do it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2024\/10\/15\/true-grit\/?utm_campaign=magazine_fall24&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=uconn_today_readmore\">Read on for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Juknavorian \u201995 (CLAS) shares the top 10 episodes of his podcast, \u201cMeeting You Where You\u2019re At\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":220278,"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":[147,2226,2235,102],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-220276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-clas","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 13:52:15","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\/220276","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220280,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220276\/revisions\/220280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/220278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220276"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=220276"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=220276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}