{"id":16736,"date":"2019-11-21T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=16736"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:13","slug":"mcwt-names-itss-diane-jones-woman-of-the-year-in-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/21\/mcwt-names-itss-diane-jones-woman-of-the-year-in-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"MCWT names ITS&#8217;s Diane Jones &#8220;Woman of the Year in Technology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-jones-award-1-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Diane Jones holding MCWT award\" class=\"wp-image-16743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-jones-award-1-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-jones-award-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-jones-award-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-jones-award-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-jones-award-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-jones-award-1-665x443.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-jones-award-1.jpg 1732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>(MCWT)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation named <a href=\"https:\/\/mcwt.org\/media-room\/press\/MCWT-Names-Diane-Jones-Its-Woman-of-the-Year-in-Technology\">Diane Jones its \u201cWoman of the Year in Technology<\/a>.\u201d Jones is executive director of administration for Information and Technology Services and the Office of the CIO.  The award recognizes women in Michigan leading or driving change for other women in information technology careers or fields of study.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jones has made significant impact in advancing women in IT roles through both professional and personal efforts. She was instrumental in bringing MCWT\u2019s first annual <a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/06\/sisterhood-empowerment-and-tech-u-m-hosts-inaugural-get-it-event\/\">GET IT Connection Summit to U-M<\/a>. She also sponsors the ITS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program and an <a href=\"https:\/\/its.umich.edu\/internship\/node\/3\">annual student internship program<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe must help girls to realize their dreams and their inner potential and power,\u201d said Jones as she accepted her award at the MCWT fundraising gala on Nov. 2 in Lathrup Village, Michigan. \u201cIt can seem daunting sometimes because there\u2019s so much need, but we must reach forward, help our girls lean into their future and let the mission continue.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation named Diane Jones its \u201cWoman of the Year in Technology.\u201d Jones is executive director of administration for Information and Technology Services and the Office of the CIO. The award recognizes women in Michigan leading or driving change for other women in information technology careers or fields of study. Jones has\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/21\/mcwt-names-itss-diane-jones-woman-of-the-year-in-technology\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[175,18,45,188],"class_list":["post-16736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-award","tag-community-service","tag-education","tag-people"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo.jpg",600,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo-286x200.jpg",286,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo.jpg",600,420,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo.jpg",600,420,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo.jpg",600,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo.jpg",600,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo-600x300.jpg",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo.jpg",600,420,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mcwt-logo.jpg",357,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Rita Girardi, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/girardi\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation named Diane Jones its \u201cWoman of the Year in Technology.\u201d Jones is executive director of administration for Information and Technology Services and the Office of the CIO. The award recognizes women in Michigan leading or driving change for other women in information technology careers or fields of&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16736"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16747,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736\/revisions\/16747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}