{"id":961,"date":"2022-05-27T18:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/?p=961"},"modified":"2024-08-30T11:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:18:03","slug":"christal-knight-member-of-class-of-2022-to-deliver-remarks-at-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/2022\/05\/27\/christal-knight-member-of-class-of-2022-to-deliver-remarks-at-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Christal Knight, Member of Class of 2022, to Deliver Remarks at Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-962 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/05\/Christal-Knight_Commencement_StudentSpeaker_web-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Image of MCC student Christal Knight\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Christal Knight, a member of the MCC Class of 2022, will deliver an address to fellow graduating students and guests at MCC&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monroecc.edu\/depts\/grad\/commencement\/commencement-details\/\">Commencement<\/a>, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 2, at the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year an MCC student speaker has been selected for this distinguished honor.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Rochester, Knight is a graduate from the Rochester City School District. During her journey at MCC, she has been active in student life, serving as a member of the Sustainability Club and the senator of Diversity and Inclusion in the Student Government Association.<\/p>\n<p>She will be awarded an associate degree in liberal arts and sciences-general studies and plans to continue her education in the fall at University of Massachusetts Amherst in pursuit of an advanced degree in sustainable community development.<\/p>\n<p>Knight has a passion for our community, education, and the arts. She hopes to return to Rochester and make a difference within the school system and in our community. She enjoys dancing, roller skating, reading, photography, and spending time with loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>#MCC2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christal Knight, a member of the MCC Class of 2022, will deliver an address to fellow graduating students and guests at MCC&#8217;s\u00a0Commencement, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 2, at the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial. This is the second year an MCC student speaker has been selected for this distinguished honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,36],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","tag-inspiringeveryday","tag-commencement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}