{"id":6381,"date":"2025-12-18T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=6381"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:47:20","slug":"briana-collins","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/profile\/briana-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Briana Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>As a first-generation undergraduate and graduate, I am aware of some of the struggles that first-generation students face. When I think about how my first-generation identity intertwined with my identity as a low-income student and a student with a disability, there were times where I felt lost and out of place. I was really lucky and had amazing supports both as I applied to college and as a student, and because of those experiences, I feel passionate about supporting first-gen students however I can. I have focused my career on supporting first-generation students as they explore education and career, and becoming a Terrier F1RST Advocate will allow me to be a resource of other first-gen students at BU, and that is so exciting to me!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gender Identity and Pronouns: she\/her<\/li>\n<li>Hometown: Lynn, MA<\/li>\n<li>Languages Spoken: English<\/li>\n<li>Business\/Industry of Interest: Art and Humanities, Health, Science, Social Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Personal Facts\/ Hobbies\/ Interests: <span>Outside of BU, I love finding ways to get outside and to be creative. When the weather is nice, I love going for walks or to the park with my fianc\u00e9 and our daughter. I have lived in the North Shore for my entire life (minus my time in Maine for my undergrad degree), but I haven&#8217;t traveled it much, so I have started planning day and weekend trips with my friends and family to start explore. I love house plants and am trying to build my collection in my office, and the goal is to start a vegetable garden in my yard next summer :) I love having a project to work on and I describe myself as being mediocre at a lot of different arts &amp; crafts &#8211; I&#8217;ve taught myself to knit, to embroider, to do needle-pint, and I am currently working on a scrapbook. Any travel suggestions or art &amp; crafts tips are MUCH appreciated!!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/careers.bu.edu\/\">BU Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brianacollinslee\/\">LinkedIn Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":24985,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6381"}],"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\/24985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6383,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6381\/revisions\/6383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/newbury-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}