{"664559":{"#nid":"664559","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"President Obama Reunites with Iowa Campaign Organizers on 15th Anniversary of Caucus Win","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAhead of the fifteenth anniversary of the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, President Barack Obama held a roundtable discussion with six former campaign organizers to reflect on their work in Iowa and how, 15 years later, they have continued making an impact within their communities.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;I really rode the wave of your work and that ultimately led to a historic election,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;President Obama, who spoke of how seeing campaign organizers and volunteers working so hard up close inspired him to be a better candidate and the role they played in the early victory that put him on a viable path to the presidency. One of those advisors is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shannon-g-valley\u0022\u003EShannon Valley\u003C\/a\u003E, M.S.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EEAS\u003C\/a\u003E 2016, Ph.D. EAS 2019.\u0026nbsp;Currently, Valley is a American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)\u0026nbsp;Science and Technology Policy Fellow placed at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Before that, she was a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutioAfAfter n.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-01-09 21:14:06","changed_gmt":"2023-01-09 21:14:06","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.obama.org\/updates\/press-release-january-2008\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"186809","name":"Shannon Valley"},{"id":"6467","name":"Barack Obama"},{"id":"191878","name":"Iowa caucuses 2008"}],"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":""}}}