{"id":51,"date":"2017-01-02T23:49:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T04:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ldeskins\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2017-01-02T23:49:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T04:49:13","slug":"about-my-fellowship-and-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ldeskins\/about-my-fellowship-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About My Fellowship (and me)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Lena Deskins. \u00a0I am a mother of two wonderful girls-Ellie and Abbie- and a wife to a wonderful \u00a0man, Harold. \u00a0My family is very important to me. \u00a0They are why I do what I do. \u00a0They have supported me through many professional adventures- Kenan Fellows is one. \u00a0I teach at Sandy Ridge Elementary School in Durham, NC. \u00a0I teach students who are \"\"academically and intellectually gifted. \u00a0This is a challenge I took on 9 years ago. \u00a0I have been teaching for 20 years now. \u00a0I must tell you that during my internship we had been working together for about 2 weeks when we were out in the field and a scientist asked how long each of us had been teaching. \u00a0It is something we really had not discussed yet. \u00a0When I answered everyone was so shocked that I had to take a moment to count it up again to make sure. \u00a0Yep two decades!<\/p>\n

I had heard about Kenan Fellows years ago and had even applied for a fellowship. \u00a0I interviewed for it and was very dishearten not to receive it. \u00a0I spent several years watching the fellowships come out each year but none really “spoke to me” until this year. \u00a0I am so glad to have applied again and continued seeking a Kenan Fellowship.<\/p>\n

My Fellowship was a special group called the Citizen Science Kenan Fellows. \u00a0There was a group of us who bonded together in unique Kenan fashion. \u00a0I worked at the Museum of Natural Sciences with my mentor, Dr Stephanie Schuttler. \u00a0The experience impacted my practice in so very many ways. \u00a0I strongly encourage anyone considering the program to make the leap. \u00a0The Fellowship is something hard to describe. \u00a0I have tried on many occasions and I always find myself saying you just got to do it. \u00a0Apply and see for yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Lena Deskins. \u00a0I am a mother of two wonderful girls-Ellie and Abbie- and a wife to a wonderful \u00a0man, Harold. \u00a0My family is very important to me. \u00a0They are why I do what I do. \u00a0They have… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ldeskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ldeskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ldeskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ldeskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ldeskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ldeskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ldeskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ldeskins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}