{"id":23202,"date":"2018-12-03T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?post_type=blogpost&amp;p=23202"},"modified":"2018-12-03T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:27:12","slug":"fellow-spotlight-meghan-strickland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/fellow-spotlight-meghan-strickland\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow Spotlight: Meghan Strickland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/uchc.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22720 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/uchc-300x106.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meghan is part of the team at UCHC, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, which provides comprehensive housing assistance to Detroit\u2019s low-income residents.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Texas Alum, Meghan Strickland is a 2018-2019 Challenge Detroit Fellow. She lives and works in the city of Detroit. Her host company is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchcdetroit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Community Housing Coalition (UCHC)<\/a>, a long-standing non-profit in the city. She works with homeowners and tenants as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchcdetroit.org\/services\/tax-foreclosure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tax foreclosure prevention<\/a> counselor. Meghan hopes to gain skills and insights through her fellowship year that she can use to make a meaningful and lasting impact in her community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what UCHC has said about Meghan:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Meghan is an essential member of the Tax Foreclosure Prevention team, having taken the lead on the 2017 Right of Refusal program. She is a counselor, a data expert, and is great at supporting clients with physical issues of their homes; from DTE issues to home repair. She is as versatile as she is hard working!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/\/2L9DrPKW7o8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><strong>Do you know someone as passionate about helping communities as Meghan?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/dxSL71nWhIg4meGs1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nominate a leader today to be considered for the 2019-2020 Challenge Detroit program!<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Texas Alum, Meghan Strickland is a 2018-2019 Challenge Detroit Fellow. She lives and works in the city of Detroit. Her host company is United Community Housing Coalition (UCHC), a long-standing non-profit in the city. She works with homeowners and tenants as a tax foreclosure prevention counselor. Meghan hopes to gain skills and insights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":23196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,17,18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-givedetroit","category-leaddetroit","category-livedetroit","category-workdetroit","category-fellow-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}