{"id":1032,"date":"2011-11-14T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2017-06-13T21:08:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T21:08:54","slug":"dream-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/2011\/11\/14\/dream-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/mitchell.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1033 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/mitchell-300x167.png\" alt=\"Adrienne Mitchell\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/mitchell-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/mitchell.png 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNovember 14, 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrienne Mitchell \u201993<\/strong> discovered her calling in the fourth grade when an aunt explained what psychologists do. A few days later, the young Mitchell used her newfound knowledge to mediate a fight between two classmates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven as a fourth grader, I think I understood how I could help people as a psychologist,\u201d says Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell has remained true to her childhood vision. She majored in psychology at Winona State (where she was the university\u2019s first female African-American Student Senate president) and went on to earn her master\u2019s at Howard University and doctorate in clinical psychology at George Washington University, both in the Washington, D.C. area.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Mitchell travels the world from her Washington base to provide counseling to military families, many with a member who has recently returned from active duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always had an interest in helping military families. Sometimes we civilians don\u2019t fully appreciate what they experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 14, 2011 Adrienne Mitchell \u201993 discovered her calling in the fourth grade when an aunt explained what psychologists do. A few days later, the young Mitchell used her newfound knowledge to mediate a fight between two classmates. \u201cEven as a fourth grader, I think I understood how I could help people as a psychologist,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":1326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,2],"tags":[607,608,130,609,589,7,8],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-wsu-magazine","tag-adrienne-mitchell","tag-african-american-pride","tag-alumni","tag-psychology","tag-washington","tag-winona-state-university","tag-wsu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/11\/mitchell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PQMT-gE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}