{"id":685,"date":"2022-03-21T12:54:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/?page_id=685"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:16:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:16:29","slug":"benjamin-rascon-gracia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/authors\/benjamin-rascon-gracia\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Rascon Gracia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1116\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1116\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/files\/2022\/03\/Rasco_nGracia_Benjami_n_Language_Headshot-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rasco Gracia Headshot\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/files\/2022\/03\/Rasco_nGracia_Benjami_n_Language_Headshot-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/files\/2022\/03\/Rasco_nGracia_Benjami_n_Language_Headshot-958x1024.jpg 958w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/files\/2022\/03\/Rasco_nGracia_Benjami_n_Language_Headshot-768x821.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/files\/2022\/03\/Rasco_nGracia_Benjami_n_Language_Headshot.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rascon Gracia, Class of 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><b>E-mail: <\/b><a href=\"mailto:brascong@nd.edu\">brascong@nd.edu<\/a><br><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Language:&nbsp;<\/b>Portuguese<br><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Location of Study: <\/b>Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<br><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Program of Study: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/rioandlearn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rio and Learn Portuguese School<\/a><br><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Sponsors: <\/b>The Center for the Study of Languages, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Keough School of Global Affairs<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/author\/benjaminrascongarcia\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/author\/benjaminrascongarcia\/\">Visit Benjamin&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Attack what scares you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Benjami\u00adn Rascon Gracia is a sophomore studying Political Science and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame with a minor in Public Service. He is civically engaged as the Partnerships director for the Notre Dame College Democrats and has co-directed a lobbying project for undocumented residents to have driver cards in Indiana. As a Kellogg International Scholar, he works with Professor Scott Mainwaring, who studies contemporary comparative politics in Latin America. He is passionate about expanding economic equity and anti-poverty measures, so he will be studying Portuguese in Brazil this summer, where he will build necessary language skills for his future research on Bolsa Fam\u00edlia and anti-poverty measures in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-mail: brascong@nd.eduLanguage:&nbsp;PortugueseLocation of Study: Rio de Janeiro, BrazilProgram of Study: Rio and Learn Portuguese SchoolSponsors: The Center for the Study of Languages, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Keough School of Global Affairs Visit Benjamin&#8217;s Blog Attack what scares you Benjami\u00adn Rascon Gracia is a sophomore studying Political Science and Global Affairs at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/authors\/benjamin-rascon-gracia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Benjamin Rascon Gracia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3874,"featured_media":0,"parent":91,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-685","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685\/revisions\/1595"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}