{"id":18953,"date":"2019-05-22T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/?p=18953"},"modified":"2019-05-22T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:16:31","slug":"alumni-spotlight-michelle-shikles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/2019\/05\/22\/alumni-spotlight-michelle-shikles\/","title":{"rendered":"HS Alumni Spotlight: Michelle (Riefe) Shikles (\u201911)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/files\/2019\/05\/Michelle-Riefe-Shikles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18954\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/files\/2019\/05\/Michelle-Riefe-Shikles.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle\" width=\"193\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter graduating from Truman, I began working at Columbia\/Boone County Public Health and Human Services as a health educator while pursuing my Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in health promotion and policy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I worked as a health educator focusing on adolescent health, HIV, and health literacy for three years before taking my current position as public health promotion supervisor. In this role, I oversee a team of health educators who work on a variety of prevention strategies. I also serve as an adjunct professor for the University of Missouri MPH program. Truman gave me the foundation I needed to succeed in public health. I use the skills and knowledge I gained at Truman every day. My advice for current and prospective students is to keep an open mind when thinking about your career path. When I entered the HES program, I didn\u2019t think I would end up in public health, but thanks to the guidance and support from HES faculty, I found a career that I love.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>\u2014Michelle (Riefe) Shikles (\u201911), Health Science, Minors in Psychology &amp; Biology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter graduating from Truman, I began working at Columbia\/Boone County Public Health and Human Services as a health educator while pursuing my Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in health promotion and policy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I worked as a health educator focusing on adolescent health, HIV, and health literacy for three years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21326,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-exercise-sciences","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 09:55:02","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18955,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953\/revisions\/18955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/hes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}