{"id":309914,"date":"2026-07-30T16:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309914\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:27:53","slug":"queens-university-graduate-emmanuel-omari-elected-elon-unive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309914\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens University graduate Emmanuel Omari elected Elon Unive&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">His additional student leadership roles included senior class president, a four-term international representative in the Student Government Association, president of the iBelong Mentoring Program, and co-president of the Health Equity Alliance. He also served on the Student Alumni Council, the Data Analytics Student Association executive board, and as an admissions ambassador.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Omari attended Queens as an international student and Presidential Scholar and graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in data analytics and minors in finance and mathematics. In May, he received the 2026 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, the highest undergraduate honor awarded at Queens.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">\u201cMy role as a youth trustee presents an opportunity to help shape a historic moment for both institutions,\u201d Omari said, alluding to a pending merger between Queens and Elon. \u201cI\u2019m excited to contribute a recent student perspective to conversations about how the traditions of both institutions might be honored while creating a stronger future together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">In September, Omari will begin work as an artificial intelligence and data associate consultant at Ernst &amp; Young in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His additional student leadership roles included senior class president, a four-term international representative in the Student Government Association,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[67,9,24,63,57908,1232,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-309914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-on-the-move","tag-people","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}