{"id":2214,"date":"2005-09-15T19:43:45","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T00:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2214"},"modified":"2005-09-15T18:17:55","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T23:17:55","slug":"meet_vanita_gup_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/15\/meet_vanita_gup_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Vanita Gupta in DC, Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It pays to be on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saja.org\/index.html\">SAJA<\/a>-DC&#8217;s list&#8211; look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiumd.org\/nfl\">event<\/a>(I&#8217;m considering missing church for it!):<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>A talk and inter-active session with Vanita Gupta, an accomplished lawyer and a young leader. <strong>Vanita works at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and won the release of 46 wrongly-accused African Americans in Tulia, Texas.<\/strong> Recipient of the Soros Justice Fellowship, India Abroad Special Award for Outstanding Achievement, 2004 Reebok Human Rights Award, Upakar Foundation Community Ambassador award and American Red Cross &#8220;Rising Star&#8221; award. <\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiumd.org\/nfl\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"vanita.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/vanita.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"132\" hspace=20 vspace=10 align=left \/><\/a>\nThough <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002164.html#comment25585\">some of you male commenters<\/a> are fighting over a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/002164.html\">torrid reality show contestant<\/a>, if <em>I<\/em> were a guy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000734.html\">Vanita<\/a> would be the girl for me.  Beatiful inside and out AND she works for liberty and justice for all.  Damn.  Just typing that makes me consider a love that dare not speak its name, she&#8217;s <em>that<\/em> amazing.<\/p>\n\n<p>The event is FREE, open to the public and at my (and Mutineer Sajit&#8217;s!) alma mater.  Oh, and there are snacks, yo.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><strong>Date \/ Time:<\/strong> Sunday, September 18, 2005, 11 A.M.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Marvin Center, George Washington University,<br>\n        800 21st Street, NW, Washington DC.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote><strong>Metro:<\/strong> Foggy Bottom, Blue or Orange lines.<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It pays to be on SAJA-DC&#8217;s list&#8211; look at this event(I&#8217;m considering missing church for it!): A talk and inter-active session with Vanita Gupta, an accomplished lawyer and a young leader. Vanita works at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/15\/meet_vanita_gup_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}