{"id":6184,"date":"2015-09-16T17:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T11:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2022-06-05T22:06:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:21:16","slug":"university-of-hawaii-education-leadership-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/university-of-hawaii-education-leadership-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Hawaii: Education, Leadership & Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"With
At University of Hawaii with Professor\u00a0Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama’s sister (in the middle) and my dear friend Kirsten, who introduced me to her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On September 9, 2015, on the invitation of Professor\u00a0Maya Soetoro-Ng<\/a>, sister to President Obama, I gave a presentation to her Leadership for Social Change class at University of Hawaii<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titled “Education, Leadership and Life” I talked about my education and life and why I am doing what I am doing in Nepal and abroad to effect social change and contribute to peace in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some photos my friend Kirsten took which give a glimpse into the presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
A discovery I made a while ago and the basis for the way I view our world and the way I relate to my fellow humans on this planet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Talking
Talking about the children of Thangpalkot and rural Nepal, and how they suffer and what I do in Nepal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Why
Why I do what I do in Nepal for children like those above.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Talking
Talking about my efforts to contribute what I can to peace in the world by sharing my life story and what I have learned.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Maya
Maya talks to her students at the end of my presentation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Following the presentation, we went out for a nice lunch of sea food at the waterfront!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Short description of and photos from presentation I made to Professor Maya Soetoro-Ng’s Leadership for Social Change class at University of Hawaii. Professor Maya is President Obama’s sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[197],"tags":[259,242,221],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presentations-and-speeches","tag-maya-soetoro-ng","tag-tamang","tag-world-peace"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/with-Kirsten-and-Maya-resized2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-1BK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}