{"637547":{"#nid":"637547","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u201cThis \u0027actions-speak-louder-than-words\u0027 student puts public policy studies to work","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPublic policy student \u003Cstrong\u003EAlana Barr\u003C\/strong\u003E was featured in \u0026ldquo;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/This-actions-speak-louder-than-words-student-15454597.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThis \u0026#39;actions-speak-louder-than-words\u0026#39; student puts public policy studies to work\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAlbany Times Union\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, August 3.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlana Barr had just started college at Georgia Tech in Atlanta when health advocate Cornelia King came to her class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;After she started talking about health care disparities among minorities in Atlanta and all the adverse outcomes, like diabetes and high cholesterol, I knew I wanted to do something about it,\u0026quot; Barr said. \u0026quot;I already knew about food insecurity issues and trying to get people to eat healthier, but I\u0026#39;d never seen the wider problem defined like that.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs soon as the talk in her Scientific Foundations of Health class was over, Barr ran up to King, chairperson of the nonprofit Fulton County Healthy Heart Coalition, and asked how she could help.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/This-actions-speak-louder-than-words-student-15454597.php\u0022\u003ERead full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2020-08-05 19:52:05","changed_gmt":"2020-08-05 19:52:57","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"60 years of black excellence","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/This-actions-speak-louder-than-words-student-15454597.php","dateline":{"date":"2020-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"630777":{"id":"630777","type":"image","title":"Ivan Allen College News","body":null,"created":"1578506913","gmt_created":"2020-01-08 18:08:33","changed":"1611774687","gmt_changed":"2021-01-27 19:11:27","alt":"","file":{"fid":"244314","name":"iac news feed image black-on-gold.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/iac%20news%20feed%20image%20black-on-gold.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/iac%20news%20feed%20image%20black-on-gold.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":45366,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/iac%20news%20feed%20image%20black-on-gold.jpg?itok=UE7DBsmN"}}},"media_ids":["630777"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"626","name":"public policy"},{"id":"185474","name":"Alana Barr"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}