{"id":6296,"date":"2026-07-27T23:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2026-07-27T23:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:35:17","slug":"transition-reflections-taylor-thomas-and-laura-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/transition-reflections-taylor-thomas-and-laura-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition Reflections &#8211; Taylor Thomas and Laura Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Transition Reflections - Taylor Thomas and Laura Cortez\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jp0M49Cj1aA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After more than 12 years with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Taylor Thomas is stepping down as Co-Executive Director. As part of this transition, Taylor sat down with Laura Cortez, the current Executive Director of East Yard, to reflect on their achievements, share lessons learned throughout their journey together, discuss their personal growth, and express what East Yard means to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than 12 years with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Taylor Thomas is stepping down as Co-Executive Director. As part of this transition, Taylor sat down with Laura Cortez, the current Executive Director of East Yard,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/transition-reflections-taylor-thomas-and-laura-cortez\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","no-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6297,"href":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eycej.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}