{"id":4225,"date":"2014-04-30T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2022-03-24T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:30:13","slug":"abigail-miner-14-receives-young-democrat-of-the-year-award-from-the-michigan-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/abigail-miner-14-receives-young-democrat-of-the-year-award-from-the-michigan-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Abigail Miner \u201914 receives \u201cYoung Democrat of the Year\u201d award from the Michigan Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4226\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/14-Dem-Award-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4226 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/14-Dem-Award-1-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Abigail Miner with President Clinton and other award recipients at the Democratic Party dinner\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/14-Dem-Award-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/14-Dem-Award-1-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/14-Dem-Award-1-429x300.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abigail Miner &#8217;14 is pictured at far left with President Clinton and other award recipients at the April 26 Democratic Party dinner in Detroit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Abigail Miner \u201914<\/strong> received the \u201cYoung Democrat of the Year\u201d award on April 26 from the Michigan Democratic Party at its annual Jefferson-Jackson fundraising and awards dinner at Cobo Center in Detroit. In addition to meeting \u201csome of my heroes\u201d currently serving or running for state and federal office, Abigail said she dined with U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow and had her photo taken with former President Bill Clinton. Abigail recently completed a year-long term as membership director for the Michigan Federation of College Democrats. During her term in office, the number of chapters on Michigan campuses doubled from seven to 14. She\u2019s also served as an officer in the College Democrats chapter at K. Abigail is a political science major from Elmhurst, Ill., and the daughter of <strong>Ed Miner \u201976<\/strong> and <strong>Colleen Sherburne \u201977<\/strong>. Her <em>K-Plan<\/em> includes study abroad in Rome, an internship at the American-Turkish Council in Washington, D.C., four years performing with the Kalamazoo College Singers, and four years working in the K Admission office as a tour guide and intern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abigail Miner \u201914 received the \u201cYoung Democrat of the Year\u201d award on April 26 from the Michigan Democratic Party at its annual Jefferson-Jackson fundraising and awards dinner at Cobo Center in Detroit. 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In addition to meeting \u201csome of my heroes\u201d currently serving or running for state and federal office, Abigail said she dined with U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow and had her photo taken with former President Bill Clinton. Abigail recently completed a year-long term as membership director for the Michigan Federation of College Democrats. During her term in office, the number of chapters on Michigan campuses doubled from seven to 14. She\u2019s also served as an officer in the College Democrats chapter at K. Abigail is a political science major from Elmhurst, Ill., and the daughter of <strong>Ed Miner \u201976<\/strong> and <strong>Colleen Sherburne \u201977<\/strong>. Her <em>K-Plan<\/em> includes study abroad in Rome, an internship at the American-Turkish Council in Washington, D.C., four years performing with the Kalamazoo College Singers, and four years working in the K Admission office as a tour guide and intern.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9441,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/9441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}