{"id":4676,"date":"2013-12-12T14:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T19:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/dev-mag\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:00:37","slug":"international-flair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2013\/12\/12\/international-flair\/","title":{"rendered":"International Flair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1393\" alt=\"SBrannen\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SBrannen-315x315.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"315\" \/>As a bilingual child growing up in Savannah, Ga., Salua Brannen (\u201898) always had a love \u2014 and a knack \u2014 for languages.<\/p>\n<p>Fluent in Spanish with an ability to also speak Dutch and Portuguese, it\u2019s no wonder that Brannen\u2019s travels around the world influenced her decision to pursue a degree in international studies from Georgia Southern. As a child, Brannen traveled to her mother\u2019s native Colombia, South America and later on in life to many other countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Brannen wasn\u2019t born in another country, she became a mentor for other international students on campus, and also was the first student to earn an international studies degree from Georgia Southern. \u201cEverybody thought I was international, because that is how I was raised. The different cultures were always so present at home,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>As an undergraduate, Brannen participated in the Model UN with other student representatives, was a member of the International Club and Spanish club and a staff writer for <em>The George-Anne<\/em> student newspaper. One of her most memorable experiences occurred during the 1996 Olympics, when she worked as an interpreter for the Spanish speaking athletes and was an envoy for the Dutch sailing team.<\/p>\n<p>An accomplished author who has received poetry awards for works in both English and Spanish, Brannen is sharing her passion for languages and writing with her two young daughters. \u201cThe languages were always my favorite courses. The whole international aspect of it all is so exciting. It\u2019s an outlet to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brannen continues to keep close ties with Georgia Southern, most recently participating in an alumni panel for the Center for International Studies. \u2013 Mary Beth Spence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salua Brannen (\u201898) Shares her Love of Languages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-fall-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}