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=General: =<div>~~[[File~~'''Serving as a UIF Since:~~LaRissa Lawrie.jpg|border|center|LaRissa Lawrie.jpg]]~~ '''Fall 2016 <~~br/~~span style="font-size:medium;">'''School: '''Wichita State University</~~div~~span> <~~div~~span style="font-size:medium;">'''Status: '''Alumni</~~div~~span><~~div~~br /> <~~/div~~span style="font-size:medium;">'''What she does now: '''marketing, <~~div~~/span>~~LaRissa~~strategic branding consultant, and photographer ~~Lawrie earned a B.A. in Strategic Communication from Wichita State University in 2017.~~ '''What that means:''' She ~~is currently pursuing a Masters of Arts in Communication from Wichita State and is set to graduate in 2019~~helps people craft the best narratives possible.  <~~div~~span style="font-size: medium;">'''What she's passionate about:''' Accessibility<br/span> <~~/div~~span style="font-size:medium;">'''Contact her about:'''<~~div~~/span>~~She was born~~ Teaching Design Thinking classes, navigating higher education systems, starting university innovation and ~~raised in Wichita Kansas. Her background is in technical communications and working with engineers to create technical white papers. She is currently working as a freelance journalist~~entrepreneurship clubs, unconferences, hosting design competitions, ~~strategic branding consultant~~I&E curriculum, and ~~public speaking instructor~~communication-related items like social media marketing. <~~div~~span style="font-size:medium;">'''Email: '''larissa@lawriecreative.com<br/span></div><div><~~br/~~span style="font-size:medium;">[[File:~~Larissa speaking2~~LaRissa Lawrie.jpg|border|~~Larissa speaking2~~center|LaRissa Lawrie.jpg]] </div><div> </div>= ~~Some highlights~~ LaRissa Lawrie has a Bachelor of ~~her UIF work include:~~Arts in Strategic Communication and a Master of Arts in Communication from Wichita State University.  She was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Missouri.

*Helping found Shocker Startup (Wichita State’s first innovation and entrepreneurship student organization) and in the past served as Vice President. Shocker Startup has organized multiple large speaking events at Wichita State, hosted pitch competitions, created an alumni network of mentors to support student entrepreneurs, and given away grant money to interdisciplinary student teams to fund prototypes.

*Giving pop-up classes and guest lectures on design-thinking, rapid prototyping, and creative confidence skills. This has served as a way to involve non-technical students in the innovation ecosystem and get them involved. LaRissa has helped facilitate design thinking activities at the November Silicon Valley Meetup in 2017 and several academic conferences. LaRissa has taught over 1,500 people design thinking. [[File:Larissa hannah.jpg|frame|Larissa hannah.jpg]]<div> </div>

*LaRissa and Hannah Hund participated in an Aggies Invent design competition at Texas A&M during the summer of 2016. Their team took third place. Both LaRissa and Hannah decided to work to bring that style of design competition to Wichita State. In 2017, They helped organize “Mars or Bust” - a 24 design competition around space sustainability at Wichita State. In 2018, they helped bring “Invent for the Planet” to Wichita State, a global design competition in coordination with Texas A&M.

<div> </div><div>LaRissa is a past President of Lambda Pi Eta at Wichita State University - a national communications honor society. She also was awarded a writing fellowship with Salon. She is active in the entrepreneurship and communications communities in Wichita, she is also a member of the Wichita Professional Communicators and the National Federation of Press Women.</div><div> </div><div>Throughout her college career, she has been interested in the positive effects of bringing together diverse groups of students. LaRissa learned about University Innovation Fellows when she co-founded Shocker Startup with Wesley Alexis and Hannah Hund. UIF has given her the opportunity to explore how innovation and entrepreneurship can empower students. LaRissa’s passion is at the intersection of communication and technology. That passion is one of the primary drivers of her work to introduce interdisciplinary studies to Wichita State.</div><div> </div>

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~~If you would like to get~~ Her background is in ~~touch~~ technical communication and working with~~ ~~engineers to create technical white papers. In graduate school, she worked as a freelance journalist, strategic branding consultant, and public speaking instructor~~LaRissa~~.LaRissa is a past President of Lambda Pi Eta at Wichita State University, ~~feel free to email her at larissa@lawriecreative~~a national communication honor society. She also was awarded a journalism fellowship with Salon Media Group. LaRissa is very active in community building and entrepreneurship. She was a Venture for America Fellow and now regularly volunteers as a Venture for America Alumni.~~com, call her at (316) 734-9212~~ She is also a past member of the Wichita Professional Communicators andthe National Federation of Press Women. <div> [[File:Larissa speaking2. ~~Her website is larissalawrie~~jpg|border|Larissa speaking2.~~com~~jpg|link=Special:FilePath/Larissa_speaking2.jpg]] </div>

~~Feel free to contact~~ '''Some highlights of her ~~about any or all of the following~~UIF work include: ~~Teaching Design Thinking classes, navigating higher education systems, starting university innovation and entrepreneurship clubs, unconferences, hosting design competitions, I~~'''&~~E curriculum, and communication-related items like social media marketing.~~nbsp;=

*Helping found Shocker Startup (Wichita State’s first innovation and entrepreneurship student organization) and in the past served as Vice President. Shocker Startup has organized multiple large speaking events at Wichita State, hosted pitch competitions, created an alumni network of mentors to support student entrepreneurs, and given away grant money to interdisciplinary student teams to fund prototypes.

*Giving pop-up classes and guest lectures on design-thinking, rapid prototyping, and creative confidence skills. This has served as a way to involve non-technical students in the innovation ecosystem and get them involved. LaRissa has helped facilitate design thinking activities at the November Silicon Valley Meetup in 2017 and several academic conferences. LaRissa has taught thousands of people lessons on design thinking, creativity confidence, and empathy.  [[File:Larissa hannah.jpg|frame|Larissa hannah.jpg]]<div></div>

*LaRissa and Hannah Hund participated in an Aggies Invent design competition at Texas A&M during the summer of 2016. Their team took third place. Both LaRissa and Hannah decided to work to bring that style of design competition to Wichita State. In 2017, They helped organize “Mars or Bust” – a 24/hour design competition around space sustainability at Wichita State. In 2018, they helped bring “Invent for the Planet” to Wichita State, a global design competition in coordination with Texas A&M that tackled the society's biggest challenges including environmental/climate affairs, sustainability, energy solutions, social issues, improving developing nations and resource equity.  <div>LaRissa learned about University Innovation Fellows when she co-founded Shocker Startup with Wesley Alexis and Hannah Hund. UIF has given her the opportunity to explore how innovation and entrepreneurship can empower students. LaRissa’s passion is at the intersection of communication and technology. </div>

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=='''Video Links'''==

<div>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNmfzCIqHM&t=1s LaRissa Lawrie uiguide]</div><div>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=106XE-6zmcc&t=1s UIF Silicon Valley Meetup on November 16-20, 2017]</div><div></div>

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