{"id":368,"date":"2017-05-29T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2017-05-29T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:31:09","slug":"notre-dame-senior-alumni-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/notre-dame-senior-alumni-news\/","title":{"rendered":"ND Women Connect Spotlighted in Notre Dame Senior Alumni Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-369\" src=\"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/notre-dame-women-connect-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"Sheila Padden - ND Women Connect\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/notre-dame-women-connect-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/notre-dame-women-connect.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I was recently interviewed for the latest issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ndsa.undgroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notre Dame Senior Alumni<\/a> Newsletter, and had the pleasure of talking about my involvement in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/womenconnect.alumni.nd.edu\/s\/1210\/clubs-classes\/2col-grid4.aspx?sid=1210&amp;gid=563&amp;pgid=2488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ND Women Connect<\/a>\u00a0with fellow ND alum\u00a0Jeanine Sterling about the group and what we plan to achieve. Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>There are any number of volunteer opportunities out in the world. How and why did you get involved with NDWC \u2013 and then the Board \u2013 in the first place?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I live in Chicago, and we have a very large, active ND Club here. Although I\u2019m married to an ND classmate, Mike Padden \u201878, we had not been involved in the local club. I noticed an interesting ND Women Connect event in the Chicago Club newsletter and went, then never turned back. It felt like home, and the women were just so smart, nice and generous that I became more and more involved.<\/p>\n<p>ND Women Connect\u2019s approach empowers the individual, and I felt the support and freedom to create programming in Chicago &#8212; and that led to joining the national board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ndsa.undgroup.org\/s\/1210\/clubs-classes\/2col-grid4.aspx?sid=1210&amp;gid=561&amp;pgid=35918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full interview<\/a>, or learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/womenconnect.alumni.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ND Women Connect<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently interviewed for the latest issue of the Notre Dame Senior Alumni Newsletter, and had the pleasure of talking about my involvement in ND Women Connect with fellow ND alum Jeanine Sterling about the group and what we plan to achieve. Here&#8217;s an excerpt:  <a href=\"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/notre-dame-senior-alumni-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">[More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddenfinancial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}