{"id":2,"date":"2022-05-17T18:10:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:31:14","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi there!<\/p>\r\n<p>My name is Melissa and I am a graduate student in the MET program at UBC. This site has been created to support my personal learning, submit assignments for specific ETEC courses, and share some of my knowledge with the world.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I am a learning and development professional with over 15 years of experience in corporate, academic (post-secondary), and non-profit environments. I have experience with teaching, instructional design, program development, program coordination, volunteer management, and mentoring. Prior to starting my graduate studies, I completed a degree in Psychology and a diploma in Human Resources Management, both of which continue to influence and support my professional perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/files\/2022\/05\/IMG_20201125_121854-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Melissa smiling\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/files\/2022\/05\/IMG_20201125_121854-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/files\/2022\/05\/IMG_20201125_121854-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/files\/2022\/05\/IMG_20201125_121854-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/files\/2022\/05\/IMG_20201125_121854-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/files\/2022\/05\/IMG_20201125_121854-3-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/files\/2022\/05\/IMG_20201125_121854-3-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there! My name is Melissa and I am a graduate student in the MET program at UBC. This site has been created to support my personal learning, submit assignments for specific ETEC courses, and share some of my knowledge with the world.\u00a0 I am a learning and development professional with over 15 years of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86584,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/melissasanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}