{"id":141847,"date":"2025-05-08T08:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/?p=141847"},"modified":"2025-05-08T08:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:55:40","slug":"why-gigis-jennys-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/why-gigis-jennys-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Why GiGi&#8217;s &#8211; Jenny&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"811\" src=\"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/files\/2025\/05\/Jenny-Hall-Photo-1024x811.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-141848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/files\/2025\/05\/Jenny-Hall-Photo-1024x811.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/files\/2025\/05\/Jenny-Hall-Photo-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/files\/2025\/05\/Jenny-Hall-Photo-768x608.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/files\/2025\/05\/Jenny-Hall-Photo.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jenny Hall \u2013 Team Lead\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jenny lives in Aiken, South Carolina with her husband and three children. Jenny\u2019s experience with the Down syndrome community began 22 years ago with the birth of her oldest son, Jordan. She founded the Upside of Downs of Aiken in 2010 to promote advocacy, education, and inclusion of individuals with Down syndrome. She has served as the Chair of the local Buddy Walk since 2008 and is active with the NDSC conference.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jenny obtained her Bachelor of Science Radiological Sciences from the Medical University of Georgia and her Master in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina Aiken.&nbsp; Professionally she had various positions in banks, was a sonographer and now works as a Business Manager in a medical facility. She firmly believes that one life can make a difference, as proven daily by her son.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny Hall \u2013 Team Lead\u00a0 Jenny lives in Aiken, South Carolina with her husband and three children. Jenny\u2019s experience with the Down syndrome community began 22 years ago with the birth of her oldest son, Jordan. She founded the Upside of Downs of Aiken in 2010 to promote advocacy, education, and inclusion of individuals with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingmain.gigisplayhouse.org\/augusta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}