{"id":12361,"date":"2018-11-25T22:24:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T06:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12361"},"modified":"2018-11-27T22:26:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T06:26:52","slug":"harvard-crimson-names-first-black-woman-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12361","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Crimson Names First Black Woman President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard junior\u00a0<span id=\"U43848265476CGz\" class=\"span\">Kristine E. Guillaume<\/span>\u00a0will be the first black woman to serve as president of The Harvard Crimson in the newspaper\u2019s 145-year run, the\u00a0<a class=\"a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2018\/11\/13\/guillaume-to-lead-146th-guard\">Crimson announced Monday evening<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As president, Guillaume will serve as a liaison between the editorial and business departments of the organization and focus on the long-term direction of the publication, which boasts approximately 320 staffers.<\/p>\n<p>ome 2019, Harvard University\u2019s\u00a0<em>The\u00a0<\/em><em>Crimson<\/em>\u00a0newspaper will have its first black female editor.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-year-old Kristine E. Guillaume will take over the helm of the only daily paper in Cambridge, Massachusetts \u2014 which is entirely run by undergraduate college students.<\/p>\n<p>The third-year student was elected after promising \u201cto steer the paper to a more digital, diverse future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf my being elected to the Crimson presidency as the first black woman affirms anyone\u2019s sense of belonging at Harvard, then that will continue to affirm the work that I\u2019m doing,\u201d Guillaume told the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2018\/11\/13\/guillaume-to-lead-146th-guard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard Crimson<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>elects its most senior leadership role in a \u201cTurkey Shoot\u201d where all outgoing members of the paper vote. The new leader needs 75% of the vote in order to be elected.<\/p>\n<p>Guillaume becomes the third black editor and the first black women editor,<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/25\/business\/media\/harvard-crimson-president-first-black-woman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>reported, in the paper\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2018\/11\/13\/guillaume-to-lead-146th-guard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">145-year history<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard junior\u00a0Kristine E. Guillaume\u00a0will be the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12362,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions\/12362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}