UNO Business Student Lesly Sanchez Secures Competitive Marketing Internship with Lozafina
We did it, again.
We found an incredible young, aspiring business entrepreneur who we just couldn’t resist having on our team. So, let’s all give Lesly Sanchez a “whoop-whoop” for joining us this fall as a marketing intern!
Lesly, 18, comes by way of the Barrientos Scholarship Foundation (BSF) internship which partners with us to give early career opportunity positions to talented young professionals in our community.
“You’ve just got to meet her,” Josefina Loza, CEO and Founder of Lozafina, said. “She’s wildly talented, and quick too. I’m always impressed with her turnaround time on complex projects. She came in on the first day before I got into the office and knocked out three assignments. I haven’t seen that kind of speed and quality of work by a college freshman. She’s killin’ it.”
Lozafina continues to partner with BSF to provide opportunities for young people who have shown potential in wanting to connect with their career fields and communities.
Lesly is pursuing a degree in business administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She’s a West Point transplant who loves to run half marathons, boxing, and reading self-help books. Her favorite is “Atomic Habits” by James Clear. Her Spotify playlists are filled to the brim with banda, nortenas, and reggaeton music. ¡Ayyyyeee! She’s Bad Bunny-ready for the NFL’s Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8.
“I don’t watch a lot of football,” she admitted. “But I’ll be at a football watch party for the [halftime] concert.”
Someday, Lesly hopes to start her own business. In fact, her father is a small business owner who runs a sprinkler and landscaping company. He’s the reason she wants to be an entrepreneur.
“It’s his work ethnic and how he included me in that growing up. It naturally became a part of me. I began to see the world through the same lens that he saw it.”
“I knew from the moment I walked into the office, it was going to be fun and different from traditional internships.””
Opportunities aren’t something you wait on. You make them.
Hard work will take you a lot further than many are willing to go.
A victim mentality will get you nowhere in life. Don’t make excuses; challenges are an opportunity for change.
That business-savvy perspective gave Lesly the fire to leave home and attend college 71 miles away. In the four months that she’s been living in Omaha, she’s learned that opportunities can be made by networking. Hard work means going the extra mile, like the time she was tasked to do a website audit on BSF.
“I didn’t know much about website audits,” she said. “But I took one section at a time and reviewed it and compared it to other scholarship foundations.”
She didn’t make excuses for not knowing how to launch into a complex marketing task such as the audit. Yet, she did it, and it stretched her in a way that made her more prepared for her Lozafina position.
In the five weeks she’s been at our agency, she’s written blogs, created marketing strategies, social media content creation, and taken video and photos at live events to support our clients.
“I knew from the moment I walked into the office, it was going to be fun and different from traditional internships,” she said. “The first thing I noticed was the colorful art on the wall. It brightened my day with all of the colors in the room. Seeing the midcentury modern couch and snack food that’s provided showed me that it’s a chill environment.”
In all, she said, “I’m learning a lot.”