{"id":25022,"date":"2019-08-06T08:24:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=25022"},"modified":"2020-02-13T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:50:11","slug":"sorority-inspires-polisci-grad-to-pursue-legal-career-protecting-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/sorority-inspires-polisci-grad-to-pursue-legal-career-protecting-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorority Inspires PoliSci Grad to Pursue Legal Career Protecting Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25025\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25025\" class=\"wp-image-25025 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Genevieve-Bonan-I-e1565094163684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Genevieve-Bonan-I-e1565094163684.jpg 515w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Genevieve-Bonan-I-e1565094163684-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Genevieve-Bonan-I-e1565094163684-299x225.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Genevieve and her husband, Michael.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t be what you can\u2019t see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the motto Genevieve Bonan \u201910 says carried her through her undergraduate studies at UCF, and still inspires her today. Bonan currently practices consumer protection law in the Consumer Protection Division of the Florida Attorney General. In her free time, she volunteers with various charities and organizations, including the Florida Association for Women Lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>That heart for service and philanthropy started with Bonan\u2019s sorority at UCF, Alpha Epsilon Phi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my sorority, our philanthropy focused on pediatric AIDS patients, and once I started volunteering it was something that I never wanted to stop doing,\u201d Bonan said.<\/p>\n<p>Her most recent project was installing lactation rooms throughout Palm Beach county courthouses to support female lawyers practicing law and raising families. Bonan is currently raising two children, Josie, 1, and Marc, 3, with her husband Michael.<\/p>\n<p>Bonan credits her UCF faculty for encouraging her to pursue a legal career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy professors are the reason I could handle the rigor of my law school courses when I got there,\u201d said Bonan. \u201cThere were some classes at UCF that were not easy by any means, and at the time it felt like so much work.\u00a0 Ultimately it is the reason I can handle what I have handled academically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25026 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Genevieve-Bonan-III-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Genevieve-Bonan-III-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Genevieve-Bonan-III-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Genevieve-Bonan-III-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Genevieve-Bonan-III-299x199.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Genevieve-Bonan-III.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The education Bonan received helped push her along the path toward law school.<\/p>\n<p>Bonan\u2019s advice is to learn how to work with those around you, regardless of whether personalities clash. Another suggestion is to pick up a part time job to avoid going into debt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love what I do, I love my work, and it\u2019s so nice to lift up those around me and help others on a daily basis,\u201d said Bonan. \u201cI want people to know that if they are not being represented in their dream career, whether that be in skin color, ethnicity, or background, they are totally capable of becoming that person and that representation for others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t be what you can\u2019t see.\u201d This is the motto Genevieve Bonan \u201910 says carried her through her undergraduate studies at UCF, and still inspires her today. Bonan currently practices consumer protection law in the Consumer Protection Division of the Florida Attorney General. In her free time, she volunteers with various charities and organizations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":25028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5962,31,20,16,28],"tags":[6115],"class_list":["post-25022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-science-alumni","category-alumni-news","category-psaclassnotes","category-political-science-departments","category-top-news","tag-genevieve-bonan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sorority Inspires PoliSci Grad to Pursue Legal Career Protecting Citizens - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/sorority-inspires-polisci-grad-to-pursue-legal-career-protecting-citizens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sorority Inspires PoliSci Grad to Pursue Legal Career Protecting Citizens - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cYou can\u2019t be what you can\u2019t see.\u201d This is the motto Genevieve Bonan \u201910 says carried her through her undergraduate studies at UCF, and still inspires her today. 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