{"id":9084,"date":"2017-04-07T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T20:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readtogrow.org\/?p=9084"},"modified":"2017-04-07T21:50:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T21:50:29","slug":"big-words-to-little-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/big-words-to-little-me\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big Words to Little Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"happenings-mobile\" style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; width: 100%; max-width: 300px;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9085\" src=\"https:\/\/readtogrow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BigWordsToLittleMe-Sakina-Ibrahim-with-girls-4.5.17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BigWordsToLittleMe-Sakina-Ibrahim-with-girls-4.5.17.jpg 640w, https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BigWordsToLittleMe-Sakina-Ibrahim-with-girls-4.5.17-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; margin-top: 8px;\">Sakina Ibrahim (right) with two girls in her workshop at Wexler-Grant in New Haven.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sakina Ibrahim used her book \u201cBig Words to Little Me\u00bb to present a workshop on self-esteem and affirmation to girls in fifth, sixth\u00a0and seventh\u00a0grades at Wexler-Grant Community School in New Haven on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>The hit presentation was part of the New Haven Police Department\u2019s Community Wellness campaign, spearheaded by police Sgt. Shafiq Abdussabur. 25\u00a0copies of \u201cBig Words to Little Me\u201d were purchased by Read to Grow for the special program.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim is a writer and social entrepreneur. She is an NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Literary Work for her debut book \u201cBig Words to Little Me: Advice to the Younger Self.\u201d She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of California Irvine. She has worked as a dance educator while operating leadership and education programs with organizations such as the Dance Theatre of Harlem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakina Ibrahim (right) with two girls in her workshop at Wexler-Grant in New Haven.<\/p>\n<p>Sakina Ibrahim used her book \u201cBig Words to Little Me\u00bb to present a workshop on self-esteem and affirmation to girls in fifth, sixth\u00a0and seventh\u00a0grades at Wexler-Grant Community School in New Haven on April 5.<br \/>\nThe hit presentation was part of the New Haven Police Department\u2019s Community Wellness campaign, spearheaded by police Sgt. Shafiq Abdussabur. 25\u00a0copies of \u201cBig Words to Little Me\u201d were purchased &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9084"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9106,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9084\/revisions\/9106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readtogrow.bulldogstudios.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}