{"id":670,"date":"2012-03-22T12:53:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T20:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairbanksyouthadvocates.org\/board\/?page_id=670"},"modified":"2024-02-18T22:08:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T07:08:47","slug":"board-bios","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fairbanksyouthadvocates.org\/board\/board-bios\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Bios"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Leland Rich<\/h2>\n<h3>Retired<\/h3>\n<p>Pending<\/p>\n<h2>Jim Williams<\/h2>\n<h3>Municipal Manager, Government Administration\u00a0<br \/>B.S. Computer Science &#8211; Master of \u00a0Business Administration (MBA)<\/h3>\n<p>I\u00a0moved to Fairbanks in January 1989 from Texas, during my first enlistment in the Air Force. I met Sheila during that time and we married shortly before reassignment\u00a0back to the lower 48 in 1991. As a newlywed couple with already strong ties to Fairbanks, we always knew we would come back to our home-town and raise our family. In 2003, I was fortunate\u00a0to be assigned to Fort Wainwright, and in 2007 I retired from active duty. My first encounter with FYA was in the 2012-ish time frame. I was on Session at First Presbyterian Church and I received\u00a0a letter from FYA requesting assistance\u00a0with setting up a shelter for homeless youth &#8211; it was an easy &#8216;yes&#8217; for our church and we got busy getting the Door&#8217;s temporary\u00a0shelter set up in the basement. When I was approached\u00a0to serve FYA again in 2019, it was an easy &#8216;yes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It has truly been an honor to serve the FYA organization &#8211; whether it was in the capacity of just getting the ball rolling in the basement of a church, or now, serving on the board. My hope is that the gifts that I have been blessed with can be used to help FYA meet its mission but help FYA to be a model of hope, compassion, and justice for our beloved Fairbanks community.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leland Rich Retired Pending Jim Williams Municipal Manager, Government Administration\u00a0B.S. Computer Science &#8211; Master of \u00a0Business Administration (MBA) I\u00a0moved to Fairbanks in January 1989 from Texas, during my first enlistment in the Air Force. I met Sheila during that time and we married shortly before reassignment\u00a0back to the lower 48 in 1991. As a newlywed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-670","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairbanksyouthadvocates.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairbanksyouthadvocates.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairbanksyouthadvocates.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairbanksyouthadvocates.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairbanksyouthadvocates.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fairbanksyouthadvocates.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"https:\/\/fairbanksyouthadvocates.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/670\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairbanksyouthadvocates.org\/board\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}