Biography

Hillary Thomas is  a Case Manager here at UCLA so she helps students problem-solve and find resources and options when something unexpected or challenging happens in their lives. Outside of work, she loves roller skating, she is very creative (she loves watercolors, drawing, and recently crochet), and enjoy visiting national parks. As Case Managers we are faced with very stressful work and she always tries to provide validation and normalize what the student is going through. When she is on campus, she makes it a point to reach out to coworkers to check in and go for walks so that they can support each other. She also has a unique role in that she often works with international students — she created an Art & Writing magazine which is now on it’s 5th issue to help build a creative outlet for the international community: https://internationalcenter.ucla.edu/programs-events/in-house-program

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.” – Mary Oliver