{"id":96,"name":"Jaimie McGirt","url":"","description":"Jaimie McGirt hails from eastern North Carolina but has resided in western NC for the last seven years.  She attributes her personal formation to her ever-challenged faith, her family and home community, early exposure to wilderness, and college-aged experiences--all of which have shaped her vision for a resilient, fair, and merciful world.  In 2013, she graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in sustainable community, regional, and global development.  After traveling the U.S. to explore intentional community living and people\u2019s ventures in sustainable agriculture, she served a one-year AmeriCorps term with AppalachianVoices in Boone, NC and later married her husband in Fall 2013.\r\n\r\nToday, Jaimie lives and works from home in Todd--an unincorporated hamlet in the NC mountains.  There she is a member of an intentional community and serves with Blackburn Community Outreach, an emerging rural community development organization.  Her Creative Communities Fellowship project is the Todd Listening Project, an asset-mapping and community organizing initiative to better connect residents of Todd to one another and increase public participation in the community\u2019s sustainable development.","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/author\/jaimie-mcgirt\/","slug":"jaimie-mcgirt","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43f8be172606bfedc6033dd0ac542b357dfd15fd7b8f05516b318dafcc04cfff?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43f8be172606bfedc6033dd0ac542b357dfd15fd7b8f05516b318dafcc04cfff?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43f8be172606bfedc6033dd0ac542b357dfd15fd7b8f05516b318dafcc04cfff?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/43f8be172606bfedc6033dd0ac542b357dfd15fd7b8f05516b318dafcc04cfff?s=128&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}