{"id":7048,"date":"2021-03-28T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T21:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:34:59","slug":"incredibly-inspiring-a-conversation-with-secretary-of-state-shenna-bellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/2021\/03\/28\/incredibly-inspiring-a-conversation-with-secretary-of-state-shenna-bellows\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Incredibly Inspiring&#8221;: A Conversation with Secretary of State Shenna Bellows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this month, BatesVotes and the Harward Center hosted Secretary of State Shenna Bellows for a Q&amp;A discussion about voter suppression in Maine. One student called Bellows&#8217;s personal story and insights &#8220;incredibly inspiring.&#8221; The event was featured in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thebatesstudent.com\/21482\/news\/secretary-of-state-shenna-bellows-on-voter-suppression-finding-purposeful-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">a recent article from <em>The Bates Student<\/em>&nbsp;<\/a>(newspaper), which we share in this week&#8217;s blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-900x159.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-900x159.png 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-400x71.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-768x136.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM-1536x271.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/files\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-01-at-4.09.12-PM.png 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, BatesVotes and the Harward Center hosted Secretary of State&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly","with-sidebar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10317,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/10317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/harward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}