{"id":813,"date":"2015-08-17T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2015-08-17T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:23:00","slug":"alumni-update-marnie-florin-ba-2008-ma-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2015\/08\/17\/alumni-update-marnie-florin-ba-2008-ma-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Update: Marnie Florin (BA, 2008; MA, 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marnie Florin, who graduated high honors from Emory in 2008 with both a BA and MA, has been at Google for just under a year working in Finance Operations. Marnie&#8217;s real passion, however, has been organizing diversity training sessions. Ze created a Transgender @ Google training that has been given to over 10 different offices worldwide and had over 300 participants since its launch in May. The training was mentioned in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/08\/education\/edlife\/for-transgender-students-business-schools-are-a-transition.html\">NY Times<\/a><\/em> and <em>USA Today<\/em>. Marnie is also working to establish monthly meetings where Googlers can meet and discuss sensitive topics, like race in America, in a safe and open environment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/02\/08\/education\/08MBA2\/08MBA2-blog427.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align:center\">Marnie Florin. Photo Credit\u00a0Jason Henry for The New York Times<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marnie Florin, who graduated high honors from Emory in 2008 with both a BA and MA, has been at Google for just under a year working in Finance Operations. Marnie&#8217;s real passion, however, has been organizing diversity training sessions. Ze created a Transgender @ Google training that has been given to over 10 different offices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}