{"id":28,"date":"2022-01-09T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=28"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:29","slug":"leigh-ann-asare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2022\/leigh-ann-asare\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Ann Asare, Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Leigh Ann Asare, Student\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Asare_Leigh_ann_800x800px-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Leigh Ann Asare, a Carleton University Philanthropy student.\" class=\"wp-image-47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Asare_Leigh_ann_800x800px-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Asare_Leigh_ann_800x800px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Asare_Leigh_ann_800x800px-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Asare_Leigh_ann_800x800px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Asare_Leigh_ann_800x800px-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Asare_Leigh_ann_800x800px.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Leigh Ann is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with a specialization in Sociology. Originally from the Jane and Finch neighbourhood of Toronto, she&#8217;s always been passionate about being an agent of social change. During her undergrad, she volunteered with different nonprofit organizations in her community, which inspired to study Philanthropy and Leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217; now a health and community service volunteer at the Black Creek Community Centre, which provides health and educational services to people in low-income communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leigh Ann\u2019s mission is to empower people and be the help she never had. After coming back from a missionary trip in Africa, she decided to pursue the MPNL program. She one day hopes to create her own non-profit organization with the objective of contributing to social stability for women in low-income communities. Through this program, Leigh Ann hopes to gain knowledge to lead and run a successful nonprofit organization in the areas of policies and procedures, financial management, strategic planning and fundraising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her spare time, Leigh Ann enjoys travelling and learning about new cultures. She also enjoys spending time with her family and dog, June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh Ann is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with a specialization in Sociology. Originally from the Jane and Finch neighbourhood of Toronto, she&#8217;s always been passionate about being an agent of social change. During her undergrad, she volunteered with different nonprofit organizations in her community, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15,24,20,21,26,22,16,17,23,18],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students","tag-carleton-university","tag-executive-style","tag-faculty-of-public-affairs","tag-fpa","tag-leigh-ann-asare","tag-nonprofit-and-philanthropic-sector","tag-ottawa-ontario-canada","tag-philanthropy","tag-philanthropy-and-nonprofit-leadership","tag-school-of-public-policy-and-administration"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}