{"id":51609,"date":"2022-03-15T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=51609"},"modified":"2022-03-23T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T15:53:26","slug":"rodrigue-makelele-ma-20-honored-as-unites-2022-young-community-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/rodrigue-makelele-ma-20-honored-as-unites-2022-young-community-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigue Makelele MA &#8217;20 honored as U*Nite&#8217;s 2022 Young Community Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rodrigue Makelele<\/strong>, a 2020 graduate of EMU&#8217;s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, was honored by the area United Way of Harrisonburg and Rocknigham as the 2022 Young Community Builder Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fulll awards ceremony is available to view below. Go to 34:12 to view the section celebrating Rodrigue and his work in the Harrisonburg area as a community organizer with Church World Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow CJP graduate <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/cjp-alumni\/david-nyiringabo\/\">David Nyiringabo<\/a><\/strong> <strong>MA &#8217;20<\/strong> is one of those sharing a few words about his friend and former classmate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time an EMU graduate has been honored. Educator <strong>Laura Feichtinger McGrath GC &#8217;18<\/strong> was honored as a 2020 Bright Star. <strong>Alicia Horst &#8217;01, MDiv &#8217;06<\/strong> was honored in 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joel Rittenhouse &#8217;13<\/strong>, Bright Star Award nominator, is pictured below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U*Nite 2022 Full Program\" width=\"848\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7jBjWsPewQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-emu-news wp-block-embed-emu-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rsa7SJAL2t\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/harrisonburg-educator-honored-by-united-way\/\">Harrisonburg educator honored by United Way<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Harrisonburg educator honored by United Way&#8221; &#8212; EMU News\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2021\/harrisonburg-educator-honored-by-united-way\/embed\/#?secret=o9nn9gKR6Q#?secret=rsa7SJAL2t\" data-secret=\"rsa7SJAL2t\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodrigue Makelele, a 2020 graduate of EMU&#8217;s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, was honored by the area United Way of Harrisonburg and Rocknigham as the 2022 Young Community Builder Award. <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/rodrigue-makelele-ma-20-honored-as-unites-2022-young-community-builder\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Rodrigue Makelele MA &#8217;20 honored as U*Nite&#8217;s 2022 Young Community Builder<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,12503],"tags":[],"feature":[17427,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-51609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-cjp","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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