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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></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Status: '''Alumni</span><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''What she does now: '''marketing,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">strategic branding consultant, and photographer</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''What that means:''' She helps people craft the best narratives possible.&nbsp;</span><br/></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">'''What she's passionate about:''' Accessibility</span></div><div><br/></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.</span><br/><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Email: '''larissa@lawriecreative.com</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Phone:''' 316.734.9212</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">[[File:LaRissa Lawrie.jpg|border|center|LaRissa Lawrie.jpg]]</span><br/></div><div><br/></div><span style="font-size:large;">LaRissa&nbsp;Lawrie earned a Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Communication in 2017 and a&nbsp;Master of Arts in Communication from Wichita State University in 2019.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size: largemedium;">She was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. Her background is in technical communications and working with engineers to create technical white papers. In graduate school, '''Status: '''Alumni</span><br /><span style="font-size:medium;">'''What she worked as a freelance journalistdoes now: '''marketing, &nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">strategic branding consultant, and public speaking instructor.photographer</span>

<span style="font-size: largemedium;">LaRissa&nbsp;is a past President of Lambda Pi Eta at Wichita State University - a national communication honor society. She also was awarded a writing fellowship with Salon Media Group.&nbsp;'''What that means:''' She is a past member of the Wichita Professional Communicators and helps people craft the National Federation of Press Womenbest narratives possible.&nbsp;She is active in the entrepreneurship and communications communities.</span><divbr /><span style="font-size: largemedium;">She currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. Her Cleveland activities include'''What she's passionate about: 2019 Venture for America Fellowship, Marketing position with a Hemp Startup, and volunteering as a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum.&nbsp;''' Accessibility</span></div><div><br/>[[File:Larissa speaking2.jpg|border|Larissa speaking2.jpg]]<br/><br/></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.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Email: '''larissa@lawriecreative.com</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Phone:''' 316.734.9212</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">[[File:LaRissa Lawrie.jpg|border|center|LaRissa Lawrie.jpg]]</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><span 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> <span 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</span><span style="font-size:large;">.</span> <span style="font-size: large;">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 speaking2.jpg|border|Larissa speaking2.jpg]]<br /><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;<br/><br/></span>*<span 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. </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:medium;">has helped facilitate design thinking activities at the November Silicon Valley Meetup in 2017 and several academic conferences. </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:medium;">has taught over 1,500 </span> <span style="font-size:medium;">thousands</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">of</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">people </span> <span style="font-size:medium;">lessons on</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">design thinking</span><span style="font-size:medium;">, creativity confidence, and empathy.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">&nbsp;[[File:Larissa hannah.jpg|frame|Larissa hannah.jpg]]</span><div><br/></div>*<span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;</span><span 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 </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:medium;">and Hannah decided to work to bring that style of </span><span style="font-size:medium;">design&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:medium;">competition to Wichita State. In 2017, They helped organize “Mars or Bust” </span> <span style="font- size:medium;">–</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">a 24 </span><span style="font-size:medium;">/hour</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">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.&nbsp</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">that tackled the society's biggest challenges including environmental</span><span style="font-size:medium;">/clim</span><span style="font-size:medium;">a</span><divspan style="font-size:medium;">te a<br/span><span style="font-size:medium;">ffairs,</divspan> <span style="font-size:medium;">sustainability,<div/span><span style="font-size:medium;">Throughout her college careerenergy solutions, social issues, she has been interested in the positive effects of bringing together diverse groups of studentsimproving developing nations and resource equity</span><span style="font-size:medium;">. &nbsp;</span><br /><div><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:medium;">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. </span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa’s&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></div><div><br/><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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