{"id":39,"date":"2017-08-17T17:52:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T17:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:31:16","slug":"personal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-576\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/429\/2017\/08\/FamilyPhoto-e1513795043213-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/429\/2017\/08\/FamilyPhoto-e1513795043213-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/429\/2017\/08\/FamilyPhoto-e1513795043213.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/>I grew up in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofgainesville.org\/\">Gainesville, Florida<\/a>, but have&nbsp;spent most of my adult life&nbsp;living&nbsp;in New England and in&nbsp;Washington, DC, where I&nbsp;worked for three different Members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My&nbsp;interest in immigration politics is driven by my family&#8217;s own diverse history. My&nbsp;father is originally from Cuba, and I&nbsp;also have ancestors from Poland and Macedonia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy traveling, reading, practicing yoga, cooking, being outside, and spending time with my husband Nick, our daughters, Miriam (14) and Lilah (12), and our dog, Luna (2).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit\">I am also a member of the <\/span><a style=\"font-style: inherit\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/About-Us\/JFK-Library-Foundation\/Our-Partners\/New-Frontier-Network.aspx\">New Frontier Network<\/a>&nbsp;at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emkinstitute.org\/join-and-support\/kennedy-staff-club\">Kennedy Staff Club<\/a> at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"clear\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in Gainesville, Florida, but have&nbsp;spent most of my adult life&nbsp;living&nbsp;in New England and in&nbsp;Washington, DC, where I&nbsp;worked for three different Members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation.&nbsp; My&nbsp;interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hsilbermohamed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}