{"id":2450,"date":"2010-08-04T17:07:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2014-12-30T21:59:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T21:59:21","slug":"washington-leadership-progra-scholars-visit-apa-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/washington-leadership-progra-scholars-visit-apa-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Leadership Program Scholars Visit APA Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/08\/WLP_june_400px.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Leadership Program Scholars Visit APA Program\" title=\"Washington Leadership Program Scholars Visit APA Program\"><\/p>\n<p>Suchin Adhlakha, former <em>HomeSpun<\/em> Project Manager and Krista Aniel, Management Support Assistant welcomed Harin J. Contractor, Vice-Chair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewlp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Washington Leadership Program (WLP)<\/a> and eight young scholars to the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and promoted <a href=\"http:\/\/homespun.si.edu\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bold\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>HomeSpun: The Smithsonian Indian American Heritage Project<\/em><\/a>. WLP is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building the next generation of leaders from the South Asian American community through innovative programs. The program places promising college students in a congressional office for an eight-week summer internship accompanied by a structured leadership curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>WLP scholars learned that <em>HomeSpun<\/em> will create an exhibition chronicling the story of immigrants from India and their descendants in America. The exhibition will be accompanied by a curriculum guide for middle school students, a public program series to educate the general public, and a website with supporting social networking tools to engage audiences.<\/p>\n<p><em>HomeSpun<\/em> seeks to establish a permanent presence through collections, research, exhibitions, education, and public programming within the Smithsonian complex. Here, students and visitors to one of the nation&#8217;s busiest museums can not only view displays about Indian American history, but also learn about the role Indian Americans have played in shaping American society. To support <em>HomeSpun<\/em>, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/homespun.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/homespun.si.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suchin Adhlakha, former HomeSpun Project Manager and Krista Aniel, Management Support Assistant welcomed Harin J. Contractor, Vice-Chair of the Washington Leadership Program (WLP) and eight young scholars to the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and promoted HomeSpun: The Smithsonian Indian American Heritage Project. WLP is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8045,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/8045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}