{"id":5924,"date":"2025-09-11T19:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/?post_type=board-members&#038;p=5924"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:32:23","slug":"vanessa-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"board-members","link":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/board-members\/vanessa-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vanessa Jenkins is the newest member to the African American subcommission of the CWCSEO.\u00a0 Vanessa has been an advocate for justice in education funding since she was a child.\u00a0 Vanessa spoke in Washington D.C. at twelve years of age in support of new education opportunities in her hometown of Hartford, CT. In addition, Vanessa is a member of the\u00a0 East Hartford Board of Education and continues to volunteer her time as the Chair of the East Hartford Commission on Services for Persons with Disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vanessa believes that wherever you live, civic and community engagement and education are important. As a founding member of the East Hartford Black Caucus, she leads the Community and Civic Engagement committee with a laser focus on educating community members on how to make an impact in their municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5925,"menu_order":0,"template":"","sub_commission":[35],"class_list":["post-5924","board-members","type-board-members","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sub_commission-african-american-sub-commission"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board-members\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board-members"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/board-members"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sub_commission","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cga.ct.gov\/cwcseo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub_commission?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}