{"id":3533,"date":"2019-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-artsnb.weavercrawford.com\/meet-our-summer-intern-kimia\/"},"modified":"2020-05-13T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:13:38","slug":"meet-our-summer-intern-kimia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsnb.ca\/web\/2019\/07\/meet-our-summer-intern-kimia\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet our summer intern, Kimia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>My name Is Kimia, and I am this year&#8217;s <strong>artsnb<\/strong> summer intern. About nine years ago, I moved to Canada from Iran with my family. Having no English skills or cultural context, I struggled for the first few years. It was through creativity and art, where I started to feel more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Upon graduating high school, I studied political science at the University of New Brunswick. 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