{"id":30310,"date":"2026-06-12T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=30310"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:33:11","slug":"welcome-to-mpa-mr-will-dierenfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2026\/06\/12\/welcome-to-mpa-mr-will-dierenfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to MPA, Mr. Will Dierenfield!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30390 img-responsive alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Will-Dierenfield-WPinstory.png\" alt=\"Will Dierenfield\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/em><em>We are excited to welcome MPA alum Mr. Will Dierenfield &#8217;09, who is an alum returning to our community to work with the Panther Club this summer.\u00a0<\/em><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From what school\/organization are you coming?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am coming from William Nunn Painting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your education and past experience.<\/strong><br \/>\nI was very lucky to attend MPA for high school and have some excellent teachers, and then again at Macalester College. I hope all who attend MPA are as lucky as I was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you find appealing about MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nI attended MPA as a student and still know a few staff members. It&#8217;s a small, welcoming environment and I look forward to working with the children.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>What\u2019s your big dream?<\/strong><br \/>\nTo find out what my big dream is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you passionate about?<\/strong><br \/>\nBiking and public transit. I try to use them to get wherever I need to go, and I encourage others to try them as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s a fun fact about you that our community would love to know?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am a good singer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to welcome MPA alum Mr. Will Dierenfield &#8217;09, who is an alum returning to our community to work with the Panther Club this summer.\u00a0 From what school\/organization are you coming? I am coming from William Nunn Painting. Tell us about your education and past experience. I was very lucky to attend MPA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10028,28,10027,9,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-experience","category-current-families","category-faculty-and-staff-experience","category-lower-school","category-middle-school","category-my-mpa-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30310","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30310"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30393,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30310\/revisions\/30393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}