{"id":1253,"date":"2021-12-12T17:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T22:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1253"},"modified":"2023-06-09T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:58:34","slug":"beth-barrett-lai","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/profile\/beth-barrett-lai\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth Barrett Lai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>I want to be a resource that first-generation students can come to for support and for help navigating the complex university system. My dad was a faculty librarian so I grew up just sort of knowing things about how higher education worked, and I want to share that expertise!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gender Identity and Pronouns: Female; she, her<\/li>\n<li><span>Race, Ethnicity, and\/or Nationality: Caucasian<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Hometown: <span>San Bernardino, CA<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Languages Spoken: English<\/li>\n<li>Business\/Industry of Interest: Arts and Humanities, Engineering, Science<\/li>\n<li>Personal Facts\/ Hobbies\/ Interests:<span> I have two sons (Holden, age 8 and Wolff, age 9), a wonderful husband, and two mischievous dogs (Yorick the Pug, age 10 and Dahlia the Frenchie, age 7 months). I love to read, watch cheesy competition shows (usually involving food, Lego, or dance), listen to true crime podcasts, and take ballet class.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/beth-barrett-lai-b0bb6015\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mechanobiology\/profile\/beth-barrett-lai\/\">BU Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":18984,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18984"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1253\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}