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'''Fellow Since:''' Fall 2017 [[File:RyanBotts2Ryan Botts Profile.jpg|alt=|thumb|]]
'''School:''' Louisiana Tech University
Ryan's favorite program is currently the North Louisiana Artist-in-Residence. During the summer of 2019, Ryan was tasked with developing a new arts program for RLCF that would support artists but also serve the community as a whole. From this the North Louisiana Artist-in-Residence program was created which hosted two artists in 2019 and is currently supporting 19 artists virtually. Ryan designed the North Louisiana Residency to be thematic each year as well as flexible in location, moving around different parts of North Louisiana to impact a variety of communities over time. The core aspect of the residency is that at least one artist is offered the opportunity to spend between 2 week and a month in North Louisiana focusing on their craft while living and engaging with the immediate community around them. The intentions of the program are to support artists in furthering their work, enrich the local arts culture, and develop relationships between North Louisiana and wherever the artists are from.
Ryan has also done contract work for the Technology Business Development Center on Louisiana Tech's campus as a consultant as well as volunteered his time as a mentor for one of the 2020 TOP DOG New Venture Championship teams. For pleasure Ryan reads a good bit (currently reading The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, So Far from God by Ana Castillo, and The Writing Life by Annie Dillard), gardens (currently Okracabbage, onions, and garlic), plays with his three legged dog Charlie, and is fixing up a house with the help from his parents.
He really enjoys helping others develop customer discovery questions (as well as working through the greater startup process), fleshing out potential pain points in new ideas and processes, and working through the Design Thinking method (which is kind of a given).