{"id":4183,"date":"2024-06-29T06:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T10:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:58:05","slug":"mekayla-dionne-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2024\/mekayla-dionne-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Mekayla Dionne, 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                        Mekayla Dionne, 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\/Mekayla_Dionne800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Mekayla_Dionne800-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Mekayla_Dionne800-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Mekayla_Dionne800-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Mekayla_Dionne800-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Mekayla_Dionne800-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Mekayla_Dionne800-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/Mekayla_Dionne800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mekayla Dionne is an emerging M\u00e9tis artist from Toronto. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University, with a major in Drawing and Painting and a minor in Social Sciences. Through her observations of the environment, urban and rural landscapes, and details found in nature, she creates abstract paintings and textile projects that explore concepts of community and<br>\nself-identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside her art practice, Mekayla is an educator and has worked extensively with the children and youth in her community through arts and literacy programs. Through her work with nonprofit organizations, Mekayla has seen firsthand how demand for services is extremely high and consistent funding difficult to sustain &#8212; and how it&#8217;s challenging for organizations to adequately meet<br>\ncommunity needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawn to the MPNL program due to the focus on fundraising, financial management and leadership strategies, Mekayla is excited to build a career in helping nonprofit organizations build strong foundations and become more economically resilient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mekayla Dionne is an emerging M\u00e9tis artist from Toronto. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University, with a major in Drawing and Painting and a minor in Social Sciences. Through her observations of the environment, urban and rural landscapes, and details found in nature, she creates abstract paintings and textile projects that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1088],"tags":[835,49,191,68,691,222,69,1093,70,82,17,81,18,19,224],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students-2024","tag-835","tag-carleton","tag-dpnl","tag-leadership","tag-master","tag-master-of-philanthropy-and-nonprofit-leadership","tag-masters","tag-mekayla-dionne","tag-mpnl","tag-panl","tag-philanthropy","tag-pnl","tag-school-of-public-policy-and-administration","tag-sppa","tag-student"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","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=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}