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\u201cEvery time I\u2019ve stepped on campus, I have felt like this is the place for me,\u201d said Julia Stranahan, who will receive a bachelor\u2019s degree in English rhetoric and professional writing from UTC during May 6 commencement ceremonies. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

When she first toured the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus as a high school student, Julia Stranahan said she already felt at home.<\/p>\n

When she crosses the McKenzie Arena stage as part of commencement ceremonies this Saturday, May 6, Stranahan will be saying goodbye to her home of the last four years.<\/p>\n

Bittersweet moment? Maybe. Ready for what\u2019s next? Absolutely.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I\u2019ve stepped on campus, I have felt like this is the place for me,\u201d said Stranahan, who will receive a bachelor\u2019s degree in English rhetoric and professional writing. \u201cWhen I came to UTC and toured, I had that kind of movie magic moment where I was taking my tour around campus; it was the fall, everything was just beautiful on campus, and there were people walking everywhere, and everyone was so nice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt had that movie magic moment of, \u2018This is where I want to go. This feels like home.\u2019 That feeling has never gone away.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 2019 graduate of Lebanon (Tennessee) High School, Stranahan has had numerous leadership opportunities at UTC, including being a member of the Freshman Senate, an orientation leader and the facilitator of the Feminist Action Movement. She also served in a statewide office as lobbying director of the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature, also known as TISL.<\/p>\n

Calling herself a fun and energetic person at heart\u2014\u201cI\u2019m a very big extrovert. I love to talk to people. I love to run around and be loud,\u201d she said\u2014Stranahan cited her time in the Center for Women and Gender Equity\u2019s Women\u2019s Leadership Academy as helping bring out her leadership side.<\/p>\n

She rose to chair of the Coalition Advocating for Student Empowerment, the executive leadership board that creates and organizes programs for the Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I came to college, I would say I was insecure in my leadership abilities,\u201d she said. \u201cBeing a female interested in leadership things, you have a weird mindset about it; you feel lesser to some of your peers or other women who seem to have a stronger passion or stronger abilities in leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what the Women\u2019s Leadership Academy is all about; it\u2019s very important to embrace all different forms of leadership. You don\u2019t have to view yourself as an exceptional leader to come to this. You just talk about how you feel about leadership and what inspires you to make social change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sara Peters, director of the Center for Women and Gender Equity, said that while \u201cJulia thinks she\u2019s not a great leader, Julia just innately is a great leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe draws people to her and has a certain kindness; people enjoy being around her,\u201d Peters said. \u201cShe is our facilitator for the Feminist Action Movement and it\u2019s funny to watch how the students respond to her. She says one word and everybody stops and listens to what she has to say because they know it\u2019s going to be good.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s that person and I think she doesn\u2019t understand that she\u2019s that person\u2014but all of us here know that she\u2019s that person. She\u2019s been spectacular at getting things done.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a member of the UTC freshman class of 2019-2020, Stranahan vividly recalls the pre-COVID-19 days of being a wide-eyed first-year student\u2014only to see the college experience come to a grinding halt.<\/p>\n

Her position as an orientation leader the last two years has given her a unique perspective on college life after the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cCOVID threw a wrench in how I imagined my college career going,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel like I had a full year of college pre-COVID even though it cut into that second semester, but I\u2019m glad that I got what I imagined to be a true college experience at first.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very interested in how it would go in the post-COVID world. Sophomore year was very interesting and very online, but I think UTC was one of the better schools in getting people to remain engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the in-person orientation sessions UTC held last summer were significant to her and the other orientation leaders who started college that year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think UTC did a great job of getting us back to how it was pre-COVID,\u201d she said. \u201cRemembering that first semester freshman year, it was the college experience I imagined it to be. Now I am here in my last semester of senior year and it feels like that again, doing full in-person events and having a lot of fun. It feels very full circle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, it was during Stranahan\u2019s online sophomore year when she joined the UTC TISL team. TISL is a statewide competition in which college students from across the state come together for a mock forum to learn how government works, exchange ideas and express opinions.<\/p>\n

Stranahan said she was trying to figure out the academic path that best suited her; during a period of trying \u201ca bunch of classes,\u201d she ended up majoring in political science for one semester \u201cbecause I thought it would be interesting. That\u2019s what got me involved in TISL.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the major didn\u2019t stick long-term, the involvement with the organization did.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really enjoyed TISL,\u201d she said, \u201cand what made it worth it and felt rewarding to me were all the people I met. I love having a network of women leaders, and TISL helped me grow that network of women that stick up for each other. TISL has done a great job connecting me with people I otherwise would not have met.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of those people is Maya Ring, a December 2022 graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis. Ring and Stranahan first crossed paths as members of the TISL executive council, with Ring being speaker pro tempore of the senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat stood out to me was before Julia\u2019s tenure, lobbying at TISL didn\u2019t function very well,\u201d Ring said. \u201cI saw first-hand how Julia worked with our then-elected governor for TISL, Matthew Kenny; they revamped the entire lobbying program, and she instituted some great changes which made it much more structured and realistic to how lobbying works in the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ring is now a project manager at Epic\u2014a Madison, Wisconsin-based software development company in the healthcare sector. She helped recruit Stranahan to Epic and Central Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not surprised that she doesn\u2019t think she\u2019s a natural-born leader, but she really is,\u201d Ring said. \u201cI\u2019m excited to be able to work with her starting in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of young, fresh out of college people here. I think the average age is around 24 or 25, which I think is awesome, and it eases the entrance into a new culture in a new city in a comforting way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Stranahan, \u201cI got my job offer in December, so I\u2019ve been sitting on it for a while, but it was very nice to know what I\u2019m going to do next.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring my time here at UTC, I\u2019ve learned a lot about being a leader, communicating effectively, facilitating conversation. That\u2019s a skill greatly valued in a career like project management where you\u2019re going to deal with many people you don\u2019t know and have backgrounds different from you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julia Stranahan, who will be graduating on May 6, has had numerous leadership opportunities at UTC, including being a member of the Freshman Senate, an orientation leader and the facilitator of the Feminist Action Movement. She also served in a statewide office as lobbying director of the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature.<\/p>\n

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