Lorae Bonamy-Lohve

Name: Lorae Bonamy-Lohve

Your title / role on campus: 3rd Year Ph.D. Candidate in the HESI program. Program Coordinator for Graduate Student Life

What I do: Create meaningful opportunities for graduate students to connect with each other and maintain an environment that can be their third place.

Also: A writer, a researcher, a novice runner and an avid follower of the stay-at-home mom YouTube niche.

Carillon Communities represented in your section: Health Justice

Why do you teach IDEA101? I teach because I believe education can be a powerful tool to destabilize oppressive societal systems. I teach because in the classroom, I get to co-create learning experiences with students and continue to grow as a scholar.

What excites you about design thinking? How have you used design thinking in your work? What excites me about design thinking is the way it can be used to tackle so many complex problems. Also, as a neurodivergent person, I love having processes and strategies to follow, so doing that work with others is really fun for me.

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? What about now? As a child I wanted to be a lawyer, now I want to be a professor.

Ask me about... Deconstructing faith traditions, health insurance, and why Starbucks is the best job I’ve ever had.