{"id":15,"date":"2019-10-02T15:58:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2020-09-18T17:51:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T21:51:26","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Williams Forum creates spaces for constructive discussion and political participation. To do so, The Forum facilitates weekly conversations, holds fora for students to engage with faculty and guest speakers, and organizes members\u2019 pursuit of relevant initiatives (e.g., through voter registration, protesting legislation, etc.). Forum conversations focus on campus and national issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Forum\u2019s conversations provide an exciting opportunity for students to meaningfully engage in, contribute to, and learn from political discourse on campus. It is our hope that our welcoming format and embrace of difference will foster respect among our participants for each other and heighten their political engagement with each other and the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fundamentally, The Forum aims to pop The Purple Bubble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Questions? Comments? Podcast recommendations? Comment on our posts or contact us at williamscollegeforum@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Current leadership<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Presidents<\/span><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emma McTague &amp; Sam Mermin (2020-present)<\/p>\n<p>Davey Morse &amp; Emma Neil (2019-2020)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Treasurer<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>Grant Swonk (2019-present)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Board-Members<\/span><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emma McTague, Abby Scott, Grant Swonk, Sam Mermin (2019-2020)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Williams Forum creates spaces for constructive discussion and political participation. To do so, The Forum facilitates weekly conversations, holds fora for students to engage with faculty and guest speakers, and organizes members\u2019 pursuit of relevant initiatives (e.g., through voter registration, protesting legislation, etc.). Forum conversations focus on campus and national issues. The Forum\u2019s conversations <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/about-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Who We Are<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2225,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/thewilliamsforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}