{"id":1496,"date":"2023-10-27T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:26:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:26:17","slug":"cari-welcomes-new-organizer-community-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/cari-welcomes-new-organizer-community-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"CARI Welcomes New Organizer\/ Community Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CARI is excited to welcome our new organizer\/community manager: Fran Webber. Fran brings 10+ years of experience in environmental organizing and communications to the role. She hopes to use her skills to activate seasoned CARI members and inspire newcomers to act on climate in Rhode Island!<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1497\" style=\"width: 316px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1497\" src=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/files\/2023\/10\/Fran_Webber-306x300.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up portrait of a young woman wearing a large khaki sun hat and a gray hoodie against a background of blue sky and green desert shrubs.\" width=\"306\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/files\/2023\/10\/Fran_Webber-306x300.jpg 306w, https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/files\/2023\/10\/Fran_Webber-15x15.jpg 15w, https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/files\/2023\/10\/Fran_Webber.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fran Webber is CARI&#8217;s new organizer\/community manager.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fran\u2019s organizing journey began in 2008 when she became a founding member of her college\u2019s only group dedicated to campus sustainability: the Planeteers. As co-president of the group, Fran worked to raise awareness among students, faculty, and staff of environmental issues while increasing the sustainability of campus operations. During her tenure, a campaign to reduce food waste in the cafeteria and provide students with reusable takeout containers was successfully implemented.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, Fran has worked with a number of non-profit and grassroots organizations&#8211;including another 350 chapter, MN350&#8211;where she was a member of the Green New Deal Team, which worked to find Green New Deal-style solutions to climate and environmental justice problems in Minneapolis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professionally, Fran has pursued a career in science communications, earning her master\u2019s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 2016. Her thesis explored reader\u2019s perceptions of the credibility of news articles about climate change. After completing her master\u2019s, Fran worked for five years as a public affairs specialist for multiple federal government agencies, including the National Oceanic &amp; Atmospheric Administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her time working with researchers inspired Fran to pursue her own career as a scientist. Currently at the University of Rhode Island, Fran is pursuing her PhD in oceanography, focusing on phytoplankton ecology. She hopes to ultimately combine her interests and skills in activism, communications, and science as she continues her career.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran Webber joins CARI in the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}