{"id":31890,"date":"2023-05-19T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afcpe.org\/?p=31890"},"modified":"2023-05-19T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T15:06:22","slug":"education-manager-valerie-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afcpe.org\/news-and-publications\/blog\/education-manager-valerie-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"#FridayFollow: Meet our new Education Manager!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"31890\" class=\"elementor elementor-31890\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-23785ae elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"39083\" data-id=\"23785ae\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-96b1daa\" data-eae-slider=\"58611\" data-id=\"96b1daa\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e7e26a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7e7e26a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">#FridayFollow: Meet our new Education Manager!<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c8d94ef elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c8d94ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31893 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afcpe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Friday-Follows-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afcpe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Friday-Follows-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.afcpe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Friday-Follows-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.afcpe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Friday-Follows-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.afcpe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Friday-Follows-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.afcpe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Friday-Follows-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"color: #002e5d;\">Valerie is going to be serving as AFCPE&#8217;s Education Manager. 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