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= General:&nbsp; =<div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Serving as a UIF Since:&nbsp;'''Fall 2016</span></div><div> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''School: '''Wichita State University</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Status: '''Alumni</divspan><divbr /> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''What she does now:'''marketing,&nbsp;'''</span><span style="font-size: medium;">freelance journalist, strategic branding consultant, and public speaking instructorphotographer</span></div><div> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''What that means:''' She helps people craft the best narratives possible.&nbsp;</span><br /div><divspan style="font-size: medium;">'''What she's passionate about:''' Accessibility<br/span></div><div>  <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Contact her about:'''</span><span style="font-size: medium;">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.<br/span><br/></span></div><div> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Email: '''lawrie.larissa@gmaillawriecreative.com</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Phone[[File:''' 316LaRissa Lawrie.734jpg|border|center|LaRissa Lawrie.9212jpg]]</span><br /></div><div><br/></div><divspan style="font-size:large;">LaRissa&nbsp;Lawrie has a Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Communication and a&nbsp;Master of Arts in Communication from Wichita State University.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: large;">She was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas.</span><brspan style="font-size:large;">She is currently working on a Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Missouri.</span>   <span style="font-size: large;">Her background is in 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</divspan><span style="font-size:large;">.<div/span><span style="font-size:mediumlarge;">LaRissa&nbsp;is a past President of Lambda Pi Eta at Wichita State University, 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. She is also a past member of the Wichita Professional Communicators and the National Federation of Press Women.&nbsp;</span><div><br />[[File:LaRissa LawrieLarissa speaking2.jpg|border|centerLarissa speaking2.jpg|LaRissa Lawrielink=Special:FilePath/Larissa_speaking2.jpg]]<br /span><br/></div> ='''Some highlights of her UIF work include:'''&nbsp;= *<span style="font-size:medium;">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.&nbsp;<divbr /><br/></divspan>*<divspan style="font-size:medium;">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. <br/span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;</divspan><divspan style="font-size:medium;">has helped facilitate design thinking activities at the November Silicon Valley Meetup in 2017 and several academic conferences. </divspan><divspan style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;</divspan><span style="font-size:medium;">has taught<div/span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissathousands</span><span style="font-size:medium;">Lawrie earned a B.A. in Strategic Communication from Wichita State University in 2017. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Arts in Communication from Wichita State and is set to graduate in 2019.</span><span style="font-size:medium;">people</divspan><divspan style="font-size:medium;">lessons on<br/span></divspan style="font-size:medium;">design thinking<div/span><span style="font-size:medium;">She was born 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, strategic branding consultantcreativity confidence, and public speaking instructorempathy.</span><brspan style="font-size:medium;">&nbsp;[[File:Larissa hannah.jpg|frame|Larissa hannah.jpg]]</span></div></div>*<divspan style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;<br/span></divspan style="font-size:medium;">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 <div/span><span style="font-size: medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">is a past President and Hannah decided to work to bring that style of Lambda Pi Eta at </span><span style="font-size:medium;">design&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:medium;">competition to Wichita State University . In 2017, They helped organize “Mars or Bust”</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">–</span> <span style="font- size:medium;">a national communications honor society24</span><span style="font-size:medium;">/hour</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">design competition around space sustainability at Wichita State. She also was awarded a writing fellowship with Salon. She is active in In 2018, they helped bring “Invent for the entrepreneurship and communications communities in Planet” to WichitaState, she is also a member of global design competition in coordination with Texas A&M</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">that tackled the Wichita Professional Communicators and the National Federation of Press Women.society's biggest challenges including environmental</span><span style="font-size:medium;">/clim</span><span style="font-size:medium;">a</divspan><span style="font-size:medium;">te a</divspan><divspan style="font-size:medium;">ffairs,<br/span><span style="font-size:medium;">sustainability,</divspan><divspan style="font-size:medium;">energy solutions, social issues, improving developing nations and resource equity<br/span>[[File<span style="font-size:Larissa speaking2medium;">.jpg|border|Larissa speaking2.jpg]]&nbsp;<br/span><br/><div><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;</divspan><span style= '''Some highlights of "font-size:medium;">learned about University Innovation Fellows when she co-founded Shocker Startup with Wesley Alexis and Hannah Hund. UIF has given her UIF work includethe opportunity to explore how innovation and entrepreneurship can empower students. </span><span style="font-size:'''medium;">LaRissa’s&nbsp; </span><span style="font-size:medium;">passion is at the intersection of communication and technology.</span> <br /></div>

== '''Video Links''' ==<div><span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNmfzCIqHM&t=1s LaRissa Lawrie uiguide]</span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=106XE-6zmcc&t=1s UIF Silicon Valley Meetup on November 16-20, 2017]</span></div><div><br/><br/></div>

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