{"id":2770,"date":"2017-10-09T22:19:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T22:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2017-10-10T18:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T18:49:32","slug":"ppad-expresses-condolences-and-sympathy-for-the-family-of-ms-shermika-mcgraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2017\/10\/09\/ppad-expresses-condolences-and-sympathy-for-the-family-of-ms-shermika-mcgraw\/","title":{"rendered":"PPAD Expresses Condolences and Sympathy for the Family of Ms. Shermika McGraw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2017\/10\/Shermika-McGraw-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2774 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2017\/10\/Shermika-McGraw-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2017\/10\/Shermika-McGraw-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2017\/10\/Shermika-McGraw-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2017\/10\/Shermika-McGraw-4-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2017\/10\/Shermika-McGraw-4.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>With great sadness, the Department of Public Policy &amp; Administration reports the passing of Ms. Shermika McGraw, a student of Jackson State University&#8217;s Master of Public Policy &amp; Administration (MPPA) program.\u00a0 Ms. McGraw was a victim of a tragic car accident last week in the City of Jackson, MS.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. McGraw graduated from Jackson State University in the Spring of 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.\u00a0 Shermika served as a field representative of the United States Department of Agriculture &#8211; Atlanta Region\u00a0before entering the MPPA program in the 2013 Spring semester.\u00a0 She volunteered in 2015 for a year of public service in South Africa and in 2016, she served another year in Tanzania teaching English, after becoming internationally certified.\u00a0 She returned to campus this Summer and was completing her departmental internship requirement with the Mississippi Public Service Commission.\u00a0 Shermika will be invited to be inducted into Pi Alpha Alpha, the international honor society for public administrators.\u00a0 She was scheduled for Fall 2017 graduation.<\/p>\n<p>The Homegoing Celebration for Ms. McGraw will be held at 11:00 AM at Hill of Zion Baptist Church,\u00a01079 Annie Fortner Rd., Bolton, MS on Saturday, October 13, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep Ms. McGraw and her family in your prayers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With great sadness, the Department of Public Policy &amp; Administration reports the passing of Ms. Shermika McGraw, a student of Jackson State University&#8217;s Master of Public Policy &amp; Administration (MPPA) program.\u00a0 Ms. McGraw was a victim of a tragic car accident last week in the City of Jackson, MS. Ms. McGraw graduated from Jackson State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}