{"id":20119,"date":"2025-06-02T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/?p=20119"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:19:02","slug":"alumni-association-board-to-welcome-its-newest-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/2025\/06\/02\/alumni-association-board-to-welcome-its-newest-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Association Board to welcome its newest member"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20137\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20137\" class=\"wp-image-20137 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/06\/McKaia-Dykema-Headshot_Resized-for-Web-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McKaia Dykema &#8217;23<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>McKaia Dykema \u201923 <\/strong>will join the Mitchell Hamline <a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/alumni-association-board\/\">Alumni Association Board<\/a> in July 2025. She\u2019s an associate attorney for Kennedy &amp; Graven focusing on municipal law, with prior experience working as a manager of legal advocacy and legislative research for the National League of Cities, as well as various positions with other Minnesota cities.<\/p>\n<p>During law school, Dykema clerked with Campbell-Knutson and externed with the City of Golden Valley, primarily supporting the Just Deeds project; served as a Student Bar Association representative; received the 2023 International Municipal Lawyers Association\u2019s Charles Thompson Jr. Local Government Law scholarship; and graduated summa cum laude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKaia Dykema \u201923 will join the Mitchell Hamline Alumni Association Board in July 2025. She\u2019s an associate attorney for Kennedy &amp; Graven focusing on municipal law, with prior experience working as a manager of legal advocacy and legislative research for the National League of Cities, as well as various positions with other Minnesota cities. During &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/2025\/06\/02\/alumni-association-board-to-welcome-its-newest-member\/\" class=\"more-link\">Alumni Association Board to welcome its newest member<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2537,"featured_media":20117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,3,163,1],"tags":[178,198,199],"class_list":{"0":"post-20119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alumni","8":"category-alumni-spotlight","9":"category-news","10":"category-news-and-events","11":"tag-alumni","12":"tag-alumni-association-board","13":"tag-mckaia-dykema","14":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}