{"id":3662,"date":"2021-11-05T10:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.235.7.55\/?post_type=news-items&#038;p=3662"},"modified":"2022-11-05T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T14:22:02","slug":"meet-the-dancers-jennifer-lucarelli","status":"publish","type":"news-items","link":"https:\/\/lighthousemi.org\/news-items\/meet-the-dancers-jennifer-lucarelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Dancers: Jennifer Lucarelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"modal-ready\"><p>Her Flagstar Dancing with the Stars costume cost $16 and everything she\u2019s wearing came from local thrift shops. (You\u2019ll understand why when you hear her song.) Jennifer Lucarelli, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, is excited to show off her sparkly camo and wild patterns during a high-energy dance at this year\u2019s virtual event.<\/p>\n<p>When she\u2019s not on the dance floor, Jennifer teaches college students about community nutrition \u2013 something we at Lighthouse work hard to address every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a passion for working to help people choose healthy diets (within their lifestyle and cultural norms), but also to reduce hunger and food insecurity in our community,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve been working in the Pontiac community for more than 10 years through the Healthy Pontiac, We Can! coalition, Sheriff PAL, and many other noteworthy individuals and organizations doing great work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer learned about Lighthouse through our team member James McQueen. Over the years they\u2019ve built a trust and friendship and worked together to coordinate food drives on Oakland University\u2019s campus. Fast-forward to the COVID-19 pandemic and the relationship they\u2019d already established enabled us to move quickly and be a leader in serving the community in ways that meet their needs (e.g., with at home no-contact delivery of food and supplies to keep everyone safe).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that Lighthouse leadership was able to take a leap of faith at the beginning of the pandemic and completely transform their emergency food system into one of the best I\u2019ve seen nationwide is quite astounding,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>When we invited Jennifer to participate in Dancing with the Stars, no one at Lighthouse knew she did swing and ballroom dance for many years in college. She\u2019s been in a few informal dance competitions before, but nothing like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been really nice to get back on the dance floor after a 10+ year break,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m a bit rusty, but I\u2019m appreciating the opportunity to work with a really talented and fun professional to create a performance that will hopefully make everyone smile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can catch Jennifer\u2019s performance during this year\u2019s Flagstar\u2019s Dancing with the Stars virtual event Saturday, November 20.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":3663,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news_categories":[121],"class_list":["post-3662","news-items","type-news-items","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_categories-events"],"acf":{"photo_gallery":{"gallery":[[]]}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meet the Dancers: Jennifer Lucarelli - Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lighthousemi.org\/news-items\/meet-the-dancers-jennifer-lucarelli\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meet the Dancers: Jennifer Lucarelli - Lighthouse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Her Flagstar Dancing with the Stars costume cost $16 and everything she\u2019s wearing came from local thrift shops. 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