{"id":12620,"date":"2021-05-12T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=12620"},"modified":"2021-05-13T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:42:24","slug":"ncc-instructor-recognized-with-40-under-40-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2021\/05\/ncc-instructor-recognized-with-40-under-40-leadership-award\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC Instructor Recognized with 40 Under 40 Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12638\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12638\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lashaunda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lashaunda.jpg 889w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lashaunda-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lashaunda-768x670.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lashaunda Lucas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nash Community College instructor Lashaunda Lucas was recently selected as a recipient of East Carolina University\u2019s 40 under 40 Leadership Award. Awardees are selected for this honor based on their impact in business, research, artistic, leadership, community, educational and\/or philanthropic endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>Lashaunda Lucas has been a social work instructor in the Humanities &amp; Social Sciences department since 2015 teaching\u00a0Introduction to Social Work,\u00a0Working with Diversity, Group Process 1 and Human Services Issues. She\u00a0serves full-time as a\u00a0Child Welfare Trainer at Wake County Human Services and is also a part-time Assistant Professor at Shaw University.<\/p>\n<p>As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, \u00a0Lucas has served as an outpatient therapist for youth and families involved with the Department of Juvenile Justice, persons with mental health diagnoses, and in foster care and adoption. She is\u00a0the chair of Wake County Human Services&#8217; Racial Equity Change Team.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas received her Bachelor of Social Work in 2010 and her Master of Social Work in 2011, both at East Carolina University. She is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Social Work at UNC-Greensboro and NC A&amp;T University.<\/p>\n<p>Nash Community College joins the family and colleagues of Lashaunda Lucas in celebrating this accomplishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nash Community College instructor Lashaunda Lucas was recently selected as a recipient of East Carolina University\u2019s 40 under 40 Leadership Award. Awardees are selected for this honor based on their&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2021\/05\/ncc-instructor-recognized-with-40-under-40-leadership-award\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12642,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions\/12642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}