{"id":977,"date":"2025-03-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/?p=977"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:15:09","slug":"new-lab-member-aliyah-williams-welcome-to-the-empowerment-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/new-lab-member-aliyah-williams-welcome-to-the-empowerment-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lab Member: Aliyah Williams! Welcome to the Empowerment Lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"951\" height=\"954\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1631\/2026\/03\/Armani-Shepard-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1631\/2026\/03\/Armani-Shepard-3.png 951w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1631\/2026\/03\/Armani-Shepard-3.png?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1631\/2026\/03\/Armani-Shepard-3.png?resize=300,300 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1631\/2026\/03\/Armani-Shepard-3.png?resize=768,770 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1631\/2026\/03\/Armani-Shepard-3.png?resize=88,88 88w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1631\/2026\/03\/Armani-Shepard-3.png?resize=900,903 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 951px) 100vw, 951px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic Status:<\/strong>&nbsp;First year, Counseling Psychology Ph.D. Student<br><strong>Research Interests:&nbsp;<\/strong>I am interested in understanding the sociocultural impacts sexual violence has on Black women, spirituality and mindfulness, and culturally competent treatment for people who commit sexual offenses.<br><strong>Pronouns:<\/strong>&nbsp;She\/her&nbsp;<br><strong>Hometown:<\/strong>&nbsp;Denver, CO<br><strong>What does &#8220;Empowerment&#8221; mean to you?:<\/strong>&nbsp;Empowerment means accepting both the beautiful and ugly parts of the healing process and providing clients with compassionate care to move forward in their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Status:&nbsp;First year, Counseling Psychology Ph.D. StudentResearch Interests:&nbsp;I am interested in understanding the sociocultural impacts sexual violence has on Black women, spirituality and mindfulness, and culturally competent treatment for people who commit sexual offenses.Pronouns:&nbsp;She\/her&nbsp;Hometown:&nbsp;Denver, COWhat does &#8220;Empowerment&#8221; mean to you?:&nbsp;Empowerment means accepting both the beautiful and ugly parts of the healing process and providing clients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/empower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}