{"id":65197,"date":"2023-02-14T14:13:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T19:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=65197"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:50:05","slug":"joanne-charles-lafortune","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/joanne-charles-lafortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanne Charles Lafortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne Charles Lafortune is a doctoral student in Educational Leadership &amp; Policy Studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. She aims to use her research to advocate for policy that will enable fair and equitable education for low-income, Black, and Hispanic students.<\/p>\n<p>Joanne was nominated as a 2019 US Presidential Scholars Program\u2019s Distinguished Teacher by a US Presidential Scholar recipient for her inspiration and influence and for showcasing exemplary instruction in the classroom. She was the first Black woman and Haitian individual to teach in the English Department at the Wheeler School, a leading independent day school in Rhode Island. Joanne is also the founder of Life Focus: a program that teaches critical reading and writing skills to underrepresented youth in her community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pronouns:<\/strong> she\/her<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">Recent News<\/h3>\n\n","protected":false},"author":9274,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/65197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/65197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71495,"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/65197\/revisions\/71495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}