{"id":1201,"date":"2019-01-07T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T21:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2019-01-09T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:24:06","slug":"unlv-peer-advisor-alex-sawin-is-named-student-veteran-of-the-year-and-student-veterans-of-americas-national-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/2019\/01\/07\/unlv-peer-advisor-alex-sawin-is-named-student-veteran-of-the-year-and-student-veterans-of-americas-national-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"UNLV Peer Advisor Alex Sawin is named &#8220;Student Veteran of the Year&#8221; and Student Veterans of America&#8217;s National Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1202\" src=\"http:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Alex-Sawin-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Sawin in her Air Force uniform standing beside her husband and holding her young daughter\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Alex-Sawin-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Alex-Sawin-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Alex-Sawin-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Alex-Sawin.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Alex Sawin, a former Peer Advisor at University of Nevada Las Vegas within our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paveoncampus.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PAVE program<\/a>, was recently named &#8220;Student Veteran of the Year&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentveterans.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Student Veterans of America (SVA)<\/a> at its annual National Conference in Orlando, FL on Saturday, January 5, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sawin was profiled in a Military Times article, excerpts from which are below:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe is everything we look for in our leaders and truly deserves this award.\u201d&#8211;Jared Lyon, SVA President and CEO<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m just the face of the organization. I didn\u2019t do everything. Everything that we did was done through group effort.\u201d&#8211;Alex Sawin<\/p>\n<p><\/em>From<em> Military Times<br \/>\n<\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rebootcamp.militarytimes.com\/news\/education\/2019\/01\/06\/how-this-air-force-vets-mom-skills-helped-her-stand-out-as-student-veteran-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Sawin, a former Peer Advisor at University of Nevada Las Vegas within our PAVE program, was recently named &#8220;Student Veteran of the Year&#8221; by Student Veterans of America (SVA) <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/2019\/01\/07\/unlv-peer-advisor-alex-sawin-is-named-student-veteran-of-the-year-and-student-veterans-of-americas-national-conference\/\">&#8230; Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}