{"id":10122,"date":"2018-04-19T13:41:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T18:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2020-12-17T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:24:34","slug":"meet-kelsey-lavalle-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2018\/04\/19\/meet-kelsey-lavalle-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Kelsey LaValle &#8217;05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-10125 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KelseyOberLaValleWpStory-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kelsey lavalle\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>What are you currently doing, professionally and\/or personally?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a stay-at-home mom who is active in volunteering at my kids&#8217; school as well as serving on the Mardag Foundation Board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you get there?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I pursued some programs at St. Paul College (Massage and Esthetics), however I decided that my priority was with my family when I got pregnant and never made it into the field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did your MPA experience prepare you for your life today? How did MPA help you dream big and do right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MPA taught me the value of a good education with caring teachers and how a tight knit community is so important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s next? Any aspirations-personal or professional-that you&#8217;d like to share?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to grow in my position with Mardag and possibly pursue a para position in our school district when all my kids are in school.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>This story is part of a new series called The Year of 100 Stories, launched by the Mounds Park Academy Alumni Association in January 2018. All alumni are warmly invited to tell their story! Email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:alumni@moundsparkacademy.org\">alumni@moundsparkacademy.org<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you currently doing, professionally and\/or personally? I&#8217;m a stay-at-home mom who is active in volunteering at my kids&#8217; school as well as serving on the Mardag Foundation Board. How did you get there?\u00a0 I pursued some programs at St. Paul College (Massage and Esthetics), however I decided that my priority was with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10028,28,24,29,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-experience","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-my-mpa-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10126,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions\/10126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}