{"id":75810,"date":"2022-03-17T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/?p=75810"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:14:45","slug":"celebrating-bgc-black-leaders-meet-ismael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/celebrating-bgc-black-leaders-meet-ismael\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating BGC Black Leaders &#8211; Meet Ismael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bgc2021.innermostdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image001-2.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"428\" alt=\"A young man with curly hair, wearing a black and gold track jacket and shorts, tenderly holds a baby who is wearing a colorful patterned top and bright pink socks. They appear to be seated outdoors at a table.\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A youth member from BGC St. Alban\u2019s Club, Ismael, is a leader, a big brother, and a mentor in his community. Born and raised in Toronto, he is aware of the racism and discrimination that Black youth and children experience daily\u2014and he wants to do his part to change that.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hoping to become a firefighter or police officer, Ismael wants to help remove even more barriers faced by Black youth and youth of colour.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Thank you, Ismael, for being such a great leader in your community!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/689769584?h=2a48766b3c\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A youth member from BGC St. Alban\u2019s Club, Ismael, is a leader, a big brother, and a mentor in his community. Born and raised in Toronto, he is aware of the racism and discrimination that Black youth and children experience daily\u2014and he wants to do his part to change that.\u00a0 Hoping to become a firefighter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[847,848,290,75,145,849],"class_list":["post-75810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bgc-news","tag-bgc-st-albans-club","tag-celebrating-bgc-black-leaders","tag-leadership","tag-opportunity-changes-everything","tag-youth","tag-youth-of-colour"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90928,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75810\/revisions\/90928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}