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<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;">'''What she does now:&nbsp;'''</span><span style="font-size: medium;">freelance journalist, strategic branding consultant, and public speaking instructor</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''What that means:''' She helps people craft the best narratives possible.&nbsp;</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.<br/><br/></span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Email: '''lawrie.larissa@gmail.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><div><br/></div><div></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</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></div><div><br/></div><div><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 consultant, and public speaking instructor.</span><br/></div><div><div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">LaRissa&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: medium;">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.</span></div></div><div><br/></div><div><br/>[[File:Larissa speaking2.jpg|border|Larissa speaking2.jpg]]<br/><br/></div>

*<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.<br/span><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 people design thinking.&nbsp;[[File:Larissa hannah.jpg|frame|Larissa hannah.jpg]]</span><div><br/></div>

<div><br/></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Throughout her college career, she has been interested in the positive effects of bringing together diverse groups of students. </span><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>---- == '''Contact Information''' == <span style="font-size:medium;">If you would like to get in touch with&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:medium;">LaRissa</span><span style="font-size:medium;">, feel free to email her at larissa@lawriecreative.com, call her at (316) 734-9212 and/or reach out on social media. Her website is larissalawrie.com.</span> <span style="font-size:medium;">Feel free to contact her about any or all of the following: 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.</spandiv>