{"id":17431,"date":"2021-04-08T18:32:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T23:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=17431"},"modified":"2023-03-22T10:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:54:25","slug":"sba-president-amber-goodwin-attends-white-house-event-on-gun-violence-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/08\/sba-president-amber-goodwin-attends-white-house-event-on-gun-violence-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"SBA President Amber Goodwin attends White House event on gun violence prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17432\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17432\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17432\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/04\/Amber111-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/04\/Amber111-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/04\/Amber111-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/04\/Amber111-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/04\/Amber111.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SBA President Amber Goodwin, at the White House on Thursday, April 8, 2021. Photo courtesy Amber Goodwin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mitchell Hamline&#8217;s Student Bar Association president Amber Goodwin was a guest at the White House Thursday for an event in the Rose Garden where President Joe Biden announced executive action on guns and gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin, a blended-learning student who lives in Texas, founded a gun violence prevention organization called Community Justice Action Fund several years ago. She has been active in policy around gun violence prevention for years, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qIhtI77wUgc?t=5375&amp;fbclid=IwAR1KYK8aDm3Wl5sYJR7DE17yllGffh92nG5sqjOtLiAECEV5muhYkBDQ7-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">testifying before<\/a> the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in September, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome little girls dream about their wedding day, but this was the day I dreamt about,\u201d Goodwin wrote in a social media post before the event. \u201cI can\u2019t believe this day is here. I won\u2019t ever get over this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s actions included ordering his administration to tighten restrictions on guns and weapons that can be made from parts bought online &#8211; known as ghost guns because they\u2019re often untraceable. The president also announced changes to programs that will send more federal funds to community violence intervention programs.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin will soon graduate from Mitchell Hamline after serving her final year of law school as SBA president \u2013 the first Black woman to win election to the post. She attended her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amberkgoodwin\/status\/1376354324415139841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">final meeting<\/a> as SBA president a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Hamline&#8217;s Student Bar Association president Amber Goodwin was a guest at the White House Thursday for an event in the Rose Garden where President Joe Biden announced executive action on guns and gun violence. Goodwin, a blended-learning student who lives in Texas, founded a gun violence prevention organization called Community Justice Action Fund several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/08\/sba-president-amber-goodwin-attends-white-house-event-on-gun-violence-prevention\/\" class=\"more-link\">SBA President Amber Goodwin attends White House event on gun violence prevention<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5668,"featured_media":17451,"comment_status":"closed","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":[5,77],"tags":[44,180,127,178,46,43,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-17431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-office-of-diversity-equity-and-inclusion","9":"tag-amber-goodwin","10":"tag-biden","11":"tag-dei","12":"tag-gun-violence-prevention","13":"tag-sba","14":"tag-student","15":"tag-white-house","16":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}