"The team of Lavallee and Neilan!" When I heard these words, I knew Marketing was my niche.

My partner Lauren and I had worked all year on a Dunkin Donuts advertising campaign for a heart-shaped double chocolate donut. As juniors in high school we wrote an 11 page advertising campaign to present at a state DECA competition in Boston. We would be competing against hundreds of other high schoolers, all fighting for a spot in the International DECA competition that was to be held in Louisville, Kentucky. Long story short, my partner and I won 3rd place in the MA competition and traveled to Kentucky to compete in the international competition.

At that moment, I knew I was going to study Marketing. Senior year my partner and I attended the international competition again in Orlando, Florida and I got accepted into Isenberg! All my hard work was paying off, which leads me to where I am now; studying my passion: Marketing!

Here I am today, a junior, in the Isenberg School of Management! I am involved in the Isenberg Marketing Club and am a mentor to current freshman. I currently am a UMass Auxiliary Services Marketing intern, where I help create UMass Dining promotions and create content for multiple social media platforms.

All connections on LinkedIn and Twitter are welcomed and encouraged! Also, check out my tumblr to see a variety of awesome marketing posts and some of the content I've created for UMass Dining. Please feel free to email me!