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Program Specialist and Academic Advisor

Lan Allison is the Global Innovation and Design Lab Program Specialist and the Academic Advisor for Global Honors and the Minor in Innovation and Design.

She graduated from UW Tacoma in 2020 with a Bachelor’s in Technical Communication and a Minor in Business Administration. She was also one of the GID Lab’s first GID Awardees for two consecutive quarters when the Lab first launched back in 2019 and has continued to work with the team throughout various projects.

Previously, she worked as a Project Manager for United Way of Pierce County leading the Resilient Pierce County team in creating equitable solutions to reimagine health and human services for communities in Tacoma which wrapped in Nov. 20201. She is currently working on obtaining her Master’s in Human-Centered Design and Engineering at the UW Seattle campus and will graduate in the spring of 2022.