{"id":8597,"date":"2022-06-02T10:33:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=8597"},"modified":"2022-06-14T13:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:44:50","slug":"christina-hudson-chertok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/christina-hudson-chertok\/","title":{"rendered":"EWU McNair Scholar Christina Hudson Selected for the Jeffers Chertok Dean\u2019s Honor Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8598\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/Christina-Hudson-Chertok-Award.jpg\" alt=\"Christina Hudson selected for the Jeffers Chertok Dean\u2019s Honor Award\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/Christina-Hudson-Chertok-Award.jpg 750w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/Christina-Hudson-Chertok-Award-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2022\/06\/Christina-Hudson-Chertok-Award-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/cohorts\/2020-2021-cohort\/christina-hudson\/\">Christina Hudson<\/a>! Christina has been selected for the Jeffers Chertok Dean\u2019s Honor Award.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Jeffers Chertok Dean\u2019s Honor Award recognizes exceptional graduates who have demonstrated a commitment to their education through outstanding academic achievement with a minimum of a 3.75 GPA in their previous 4 quarters and through leadership and service to the community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christina is a first-generation university student double majoring in English studies and Africana studies, and minoring in religious studies. She currently holds a 3.98 GPA. Christina completed an EWU McNair Summer Research Internship in 2021 under the mentorship of Associate Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/css\/race-culture-studies\/africana-studies\/contact-us\/\">Okera Nsombi<\/a>\u00a0titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/in.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2021\/10\/The-Characterization-of-African-Religions.pdf\"><i>The Characterization of African Religions<\/i><\/a>. She recently presented this research at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naaas.org\/national-conference-2\/\">National Association of African American Studies &amp; Affiliates 2022 Virtual Conference<\/a>, held online. Christina serves as the <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/christina-hudson-asewu-diversity-representative\/\">ASEWU Diversity Representative<\/a>. Based on her work in this role, her outstanding academic record, and her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/ewu-mcnair-scholar-christina-hudson-contributes-to-blackpast-org\/\">regular contributions<\/a>\u00a0to organizations such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackpast.org\/author\/christina-hudson\/\">BlackPast.org<\/a>, Christina was invited to participate in building a curriculum for next year\u2019s required staff trainings in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion under <a href=\"http:\/\/lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\/biennium\/2021-22\/Pdf\/Bill%20Reports\/Senate\/5227-S2.E%20SBR%20FBR%2021.pdf?q=20210521094142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 5227<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Christina will begin her PhD studies in <a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.temple.edu\/academics\/departments-and-programs\/africology-and-african-american-studies\">Africology and African American Studies<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.temple.edu\/\">Temple University<\/a> next fall. Read about all of Christina&#8217;s accomplishments as a McNair Scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/category\/christina-hudson\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to EWU McNair Scholar Christina Hudson! Christina has been selected for the Jeffers Chertok Dean\u2019s Honor Award. The Jeffers Chertok Dean\u2019s Honor Award recognizes exceptional graduates who have demonstrated a commitment to their education through outstanding academic achievement with a minimum of a 3.75 GPA in their previous 4 quarters and through leadership and &#8230; <a title=\"EWU McNair Scholar Christina Hudson Selected for the Jeffers Chertok Dean\u2019s Honor Award\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/christina-hudson-chertok\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EWU McNair Scholar Christina Hudson Selected for the Jeffers Chertok Dean\u2019s Honor Award\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30010,"featured_media":8598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,457,500,9,385,378,143,26,28,424,127,34],"tags":[269,467,209,287,382,154,134,301,487,98,381,465],"class_list":["post-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-2021-cohort","category-2021-summer-research","category-2021-22-awards","category-acceptances-awards","category-africana-studies-all-majors","category-christina-hudson","category-english","category-mcnair-mentors","category-news","category-religious-studies","category-research","category-scholars","tag-africana-studies","tag-asewu","tag-award","tag-dr-okera-nsombi","tag-english","tag-ewu-mcnair-program","tag-ewu-mcnair-scholar","tag-ewu-summer-research-internship","tag-jeffers-chertok-deans-honor-award","tag-mentor","tag-religious-studies","tag-temple-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8599,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions\/8599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}