{"id":1410,"date":"2015-09-02T07:58:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T07:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2015-09-02T07:58:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T07:58:27","slug":"inspirational-diversity-champion-of-the-month-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2015\/09\/02\/inspirational-diversity-champion-of-the-month-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Diversity Champion of the Month &#8211; September 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/09\/Rebecca-Root.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1411\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/09\/Rebecca-Root.png\" alt=\"Rebecca Root\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For our Inspirational Diversity Champion for September we have chosen Rebecca Root. Rebecca is a British actress and stand-up comedian. She is one of the very few openly transgender actors in mainstream television and she is to be the star of the new BBC2 sitcom Boy Meets Girl.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a Master of Arts in Vocal Studies. As well as an actor she is also a voice coach, advertising voice therapy specifically for transgender people to help them &#8220;find a voice they feel fits their gender\u201d. She started that career after she transitioned and acting work became harder to find.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca\u2019s new comedy series Boy Meets Girl starts on<br \/>\n3 September on BBC2 and is the first BBC comedy to feature transgender issues prominently, and the first sitcom to star a transgender actor.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Rebecca see her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccaroot.co.uk\/index.htm\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our Inspirational Diversity Champion for September we have chosen Rebecca Root. Rebecca is a British actress and stand-up comedian. She is one of the very few openly transgender actors in mainstream television and she &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-inspirational-diversity-champion-of-the-month","category-transgender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}