{"id":49180,"date":"2014-04-17T02:29:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T02:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/?page_id=49180"},"modified":"2015-09-26T21:55:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T21:55:30","slug":"iverson-katia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/testimonials\/iverson-katia\/","title":{"rendered":"Katia Iverson &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #404040;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2014\/04\/Iverson-260x300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-49142 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2014\/04\/Iverson-260x300.png\" alt=\"Iverson-260x300\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a1Hola!\u00a0Habari gani?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #404040;\">My name is Katia Iverson. I majored in Cross-Cultural Studies at Augsburg and graduated in May of 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #404040;\">I was fortunate enough to study both Spanish and Kiswahili languages during my four years at Augsburg and abroad in Mombasa, Kenya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #404040;\">Since graduating, I have held a number of positions, but have been employed as a Refugee Program Specialist, focusing on housing refugees, at the MN Council of Churches Refugee Services since February of 2013. Here, I work directly with new refugees from around the world as they are beginning their new lives in Minnesota. I assist case managers with securing housing for our clients, and teach our clients what it means to sign a lease, how to pay rent, maintain an apartment, and live self-sufficiently. I also work with currently homeless refugees to find stable housing and meet basic needs for their families, and teach NAREW\u2013New Arrival Refugee Empowerment Workshops for all arriving families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #404040;\">I give God and my education in Cross-Cultural Studies 100% of the credit for my success in the professional world. It was through my courses in global interdependence and service-based cross-cultural internships in the community that I have found joy and peace working with clients from places like Iraq, Somalia, and Burma. Without the background in languages and travel that were fostered by the Cross-Cultural Studies curriculum, I could not understand the complexity of starting a life in urban Minnesota as I do now. This department has given me the tools I need to be successful in my workplace and around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #404040;\"><em>(Last update: September 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a1Hola!\u00a0Habari gani? My name is Katia Iverson. I majored in Cross-Cultural Studies at Augsburg and graduated in May of 2012. I was fortunate enough to study both Spanish and Kiswahili languages during my four years at Augsburg and abroad in Mombasa, Kenya. Since graduating, I have held a number of positions, but have been employed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":49165,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49180"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49324,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49180\/revisions\/49324"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}