{"id":3251,"date":"2023-08-11T10:09:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:10","slug":"cindy-boustani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2023\/cindy-boustani\/","title":{"rendered":"Cindy Boustani, 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                        Cindy Boustani, 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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy_Boustani400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy_Boustani400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy_Boustani400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy_Boustani400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Cindy_Boustani400-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Born and raised in Lebanon, Cindy Boustani has always dreamed of a better world for her community. She graduated from the Balamand University, in Lebanon, with a Master\u2019s in Architecture while also pursuing a minor in Psychology at the Lebanese University. Cindy worked as an Emergency Medical Technician and a trainer for the Lebanese Red Cross for more than seven years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When visiting Beirut after moving to Montreal a few years ago, she realized that she has more to give to post-conflict communities. She decided to turn her passion into her life\u2019s mission, leading her to joining the MPNL program. Since then, she&#8217;s been working on building socio-cultural community centers in post-conflict regions, starting in Lebanon, promoting physical, mental and emotional growth within youths affected by intergenerational trauma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cindy also loves travelling, whether it\u2019s for volunteering purposes or just chasing new experiences and indulging in new cultures. In her free time, you can find her enjoying the sun outdoors, walking her cat, Nounou, or reading and drawing in the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, Cindy was the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2023\/mpnl-student-cindy-boustani-receives-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inaugural recipient of the \u201cBenevolence Award for MPNL.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in Lebanon, Cindy Boustani has always dreamed of a better world for her community. She graduated from the Balamand University, in Lebanon, with a Master\u2019s in Architecture while also pursuing a minor in Psychology at the Lebanese University. Cindy worked as an Emergency Medical Technician and a trainer for the Lebanese Red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[887],"tags":[904],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students-2023","tag-cindy-boustani"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3550,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}