{"id":15701,"date":"2020-06-26T09:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T13:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=15701"},"modified":"2020-06-09T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:08:50","slug":"maryland-student-emma-sodie-wins-vegetarian-resource-group-runner-up-scholarship-for-2020-scholarship-sponsored-by-the-st-louis-vegetarian-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/maryland-student-emma-sodie-wins-vegetarian-resource-group-runner-up-scholarship-for-2020-scholarship-sponsored-by-the-st-louis-vegetarian-society\/","title":{"rendered":"MARYLAND STUDENT EMMA SODIE WINS VEGETARIAN RESOURCE GROUP RUNNER-UP SCHOLARSHIP FOR 2020: Scholarship Sponsored by the St. Louis Vegetarian Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Emma-Sodie-Scholarship-Runnerup-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Emma-Sodie-Scholarship-Runnerup-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Emma-Sodie-Scholarship-Runnerup-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Emma-Sodie-Scholarship-Runnerup.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Emma Sodie\u2019s vegan journey began when she was 13-years-old. She stopped purchasing and consuming all animal products \u2013 meat, dairy, eggs, leather \u2013 \u201cand I never looked back,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Emma did internships at Compassion Over Killing and The Humane League. She assisted with a MeatOut campaign, volunteered at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, and NBC 4 Health and Fitness Expo tabling event. She also conducted research on veganism in local media, wrote articles and created presentations on factory farming, and attended a \u201cI\u2019m Not Lovin It\u201d protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0While leading her Environmental Ethics club in high school, she screened the movies \u201cEarthlings\u201d and \u201cCowspiracy.&#8221; She also arranged a vegan food tasting at her school sponsored by VegFund.\u00a0In addition she set-up a meeting with her school\u2019s lunch program coordinator to advocate for more vegan options. They have since added tofu to the salad bar, and made sure that at least one vegan option is available every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Emma\u2019s favorite subjects are physics and chemistry. She hopes to pursue a career that helps animals in some way, whether that means working for an animal rights organization or opening her own vegan restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We had 280 incredible applicants for the VRG Scholarship Contest in 2020.\u00a0We wish we could give awards to all of these amazing teens. The deadline for applications for 2021 graduating high school seniors for college scholarship awards is February 20, 2021. To see rules and other scholarship winners, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To support other scholarships and internships, donate at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/donate\">www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Sodie\u2019s vegan journey began when she was 13-years-old. She stopped purchasing and consuming all animal products \u2013 meat, dairy, eggs, leather \u2013 \u201cand I never looked back,\u201d she stated. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Emma did internships at Compassion Over Killing and The Humane League. She assisted with a MeatOut campaign, volunteered at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15703,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions\/15703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}