{"id":22199,"date":"2026-02-23T20:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=22199"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:30:25","slug":"directors-insights-we-love-region-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/directors-insights-we-love-region-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Director&#8217;s Insights: We Love Region 5!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As we emerge from winter and move into spring, February is a great time to reflect on the parts of your life you love and appreciate. At Region 5, we love the work we do to provide high-quality, engaging learning opportunities for our members.<\/p>\n<p>A great example of this is a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVdODUWvA80\">R5\/PNC Health Talk<\/a>, which highlighted the Keiki Heroes project from the Hawai&#8217;i Public Health Institute and was very well received by attendees. One attendee shared,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This webinar was fantastic. It is so practical and inclusive. I am going to look for ways to tell people about Keiki&#8217;s Heroes and to use them as examples. Bravo!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is the kind of feedback we love to see from our webinars and helps us to plan more events that will ignite our members&#8217; excitement and curiosity. If you have ideas for other webinar topics you would like to see from us, use our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/R5-suggestion-box\">digital suggestion box<\/a>!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Outside of our work with the NNLM, the Region 5 team has much to appreciate. For me, it&#8217;s my family, my health, and the longer, brighter days.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here\u2019s what the rest of the Region 5 team is excited about this February:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jenny Muilenburg, PI<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;I\u2019m grateful for the inkling of spring in the air right now \u2014 blooming hellebores, tiny green tips on my fig trees, and chirping birds in the morning.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carolyn Martin, Outreach &amp; Education Coordinator<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;I am thankful for my wonderful colleagues and co-workers who have been so supportive this past year.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emily Hamstra, Assistant Director &#8211; <\/strong>&#8220;My dog, because he reminds me that it&#8217;s always a good idea to go outside.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lisa Guerrero, Grant Manager<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Sunny afternoons as we approach springtime.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Share something special you&#8217;re looking forward to this spring in the comments!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we emerge from winter and move into spring, February is a great time to reflect on the parts of your life you love and appreciate. At Region 5, we love the work we do to provide high-quality, engaging learning opportunities for our members. A great example of this is a recent R5\/PNC Health Talk,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/directors-insights-we-love-region-5\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[325],"class_list":["post-22199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-nnlm-region-5","tag-nnlm-region-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22199"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22216,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199\/revisions\/22216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}