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I am Gabriel Conners, a Unversity Innovation Fellow from the 2015 cohort and a student of collaboration and “creativity as currency.” With a passion to empower the epic in everyone, I attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, nestled in the south of Chicago’s urban core. In 2009, I took a five-year hiatus from the rigors of academia to explore a nagging reality that I can best sum up as “why do people live apathetic and uninspired lives?” I came to see that the most satisfied people were either pursuing a passion or at peace with life(or both!).
This journey has led me to Illinois Tech, where I study Social and Economic Development Policy and work with the University Innovation Fellows, the IIT Student Government, and the office of Student Access, Success, and Diversity Initiatives to reform the culture of campus to better nurture creative passions. My life’s mission involves seeing this kind of culture shift spill over into surrounding communities, so that education institutions drive creative revolutions in their neighborhoods.