{"id":1233,"date":"2024-10-26T05:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2024-12-17T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:36:58","slug":"brooks-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/2024\/10\/26\/brooks-award\/","title":{"rendered":"WSF Vice-President Elect Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kathy Brooks<\/strong> has been selected for the 2024 Mandy Goetze Award.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1241\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/10\/kathy_brooks_award_small.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1241\" class=\"wp-image-1241 size-medium img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/10\/kathy_brooks_award_small-172x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kathy Brooks awarded Mandy Goetze Award 2024\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/10\/kathy_brooks_award_small-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/10\/kathy_brooks_award_small-300x524.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/10\/kathy_brooks_award_small.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Brooks receiving the Mandy Goetze award in Sydney, Australia on Oct. 24, 2024<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mandy Goetze founded the The Alliance For Women (TIAW) organization 42 years ago in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 The Mandy Goetze award is given to the person who represents the goals\/intentions of TIAW.\u00a0 Kathy has been a member since 2018, and a board member since 2019. TIAW\u2019s goal is to economically empower women around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.net\/site\/chapter32\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NARFE Chapter 32<\/a> (Spokane) in 2011. She retired after serving as USPS Spokane District Manager of Operations Program Support. She has served as NARFE Chapter President,\u00a0 Vice President &amp; coordinated the writing of Chapter 32\u2019s newsletter as well as developing the Chapter website.\u00a0 In January 2025 she will begin her term as NARFE Washington State Federation (WSF) Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>NARFE Washington State Federation celebrates Kathy\u2019s award and thanks her for her exemplary service to NARFE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Brooks has been awarded the 2024 Mandy Goetze award by The International Alliance of Women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[28,29,30],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brooks","tag-narfe","tag-vp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}