{"id":6,"date":"2022-01-29T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T17:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2022-02-16T21:42:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T21:42:53","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/","title":{"rendered":"BIO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"388\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Shelton.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Shelton.jpg 388w, https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Shelton-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u00a0am looking for an internship opportunity within the field of Technical Writing or a related discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, I\u2019m a graduate student in the inaugural cohort of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/publichumanities.georgetown.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">MA in Engaged and Public Humanities<\/a>\u00a0at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>In 2021, I graduated\u00a0<em>Magna Cum Laude<\/em>\u00a0from the University of California, San Diego, where I received a BA in Philosophy with Honors.<ul><li>My senior honors thesis: \u201cSelf-Reliance and the Free Spirit: Emerson, Nietzsche and Zarathustra,\u201d traced the influence of American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson on the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (an amended version of this was published in\u00a0<em>Intuitions<\/em>, the undergraduate philosophy journal of UCSD).<\/li><li>I was awarded the Eric Paul Allison Memorial Fellowship which is \u201cgiven to the graduating senior who best exemplifies the ideals of personal integrity, academic excellence, and commitment to learning.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>In August 2006, I joined the United States Coast Guard, serving as an Electronics Technician. I was honorably discharged in July 2016, after almost a decade of service. I was stationed at CAMPSAC Pt. Reyes, in Pt. Reyes, California; the USCGC MUNRO, a high-endurance cutter out of Kodiak, Alaska; and ESD San Diego, in San Diego, California.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I am originally from Eastern North Carolina, where most of my family still lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0am looking for an internship opportunity within the field of Technical Writing or a related discipline. Currently, I\u2019m a graduate student in the inaugural cohort of the\u00a0MA in Engaged and Public Humanities\u00a0at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. In 2021, I graduated\u00a0Magna Cum Laude\u00a0from the University of California, San Diego, where I received a BA in <a href=\"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  BIO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwshelton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}