Alaisa Phithak’s top advice for students is to be brave and try new things. Being brave runs in her family. Her grandparents left their home country of Laos after it became wartorn as a result of the Vietnam War. Knowing how determined her grandparents were has motivated Alaisa through her college experience. She will graduate in May from huntsmanschool with a degree in Marketing and minors in Design and Entrepreneurship. When starting out in some of her business courses, it wasn’t rare for her to be the only woman of color sitting in class. That made her realize she wanted to get more involved at Huntsman and at the university as a whole. ”If you don’t see someone who looks like you in a space where you want to be, go be that person.” Alaisa is on Business Council where she focuses on creating spaces in the college for people of all different backgrounds to come and network. She’s also been involved with the Asian Student Association at USU. In both roles, she’s helped plan and ca...