LACI constantly strives to provide better quality and more unique deliverables for our clients, and in order to achieve the highest quality possible, we created the Professor Mentorship program where USC professors are paired with teams working on issues in which the professors specialize.
Since 2007, Professor Mentors have enthusiastically supplemented LACI teams in assisting over 70 organizations with a variety of issues including marketing, operations management, organizational behavior, corporate communication, public relations and entrepreneurship.
Our Professor Mentorship program is aimed at enlisting the help of those people who make our education at USC the highest quality it can be, and we believe by having professors on hand to mentor our groups, we can share that professional outlook and quality that we as students highly value with the members of the community who need it most.
Current Professor Mentors
Kathleen Allen
Bill Crookston
Lucy Lee
Thomas Olson
James Owens
Terance Wolfe
Faculty Advisor: Lucy Lee
Professor Lucy Lee is an Associate Professor of Clinical Management Communication at the Marshall School of Business. Her area of expertise is in workplace communication strategies and development of professional communication skills. Prior to joining Marshall, Professor Lee worked as a network news editor/producer and held several positions in media and public relations at nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles and New York City. She has been honored with the Golden Apple Award for teaching (2008) and the Evan C. Thompson Award for Teaching and Mentoring (2005). She has been a LACI Professor Mentor since the Spring of 2008, and she began serving as Faculty Advisor in Fall 2010.
How to Volunteer
If you are a professor or consultant and are interested in volunteering as a mentor or advisor, please know that assisting a LACI team is a very minor time commitment; however, this small commitment provides limitless value to our clients. If you would like to know more, please contact Jasmine Ako, our VP of External Relations at LACI.ambassador@gmail.com.
Professor Mentors
LACI constantly strives to provide better quality and more unique deliverables for our clients, and in order to achieve the highest quality possible, we created the Professor Mentorship program where USC professors are paired with teams working on issues in which the professors specialize.
Since 2007, Professor Mentors have enthusiastically supplemented LACI teams in assisting over 70 organizations with a variety of issues including marketing, operations management, organizational behavior, corporate communication, public relations and entrepreneurship.
Our Professor Mentorship program is aimed at enlisting the help of those people who make our education at USC the highest quality it can be, and we believe by having professors on hand to mentor our groups, we can share that professional outlook and quality that we as students highly value with the members of the community who need it most.
Current Professor Mentors
Faculty Advisor: Lucy Lee
Professor Lucy Lee is an Associate Professor of Clinical Management Communication at the Marshall School of Business. Her area of expertise is in workplace communication strategies and development of professional communication skills. Prior to joining Marshall, Professor Lee worked as a network news editor/producer and held several positions in media and public relations at nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles and New York City. She has been honored with the Golden Apple Award for teaching (2008) and the Evan C. Thompson Award for Teaching and Mentoring (2005). She has been a LACI Professor Mentor since the Spring of 2008, and she began serving as Faculty Advisor in Fall 2010.
How to Volunteer
If you are a professor or consultant and are interested in volunteering as a mentor or advisor, please know that assisting a LACI team is a very minor time commitment; however, this small commitment provides limitless value to our clients. If you would like to know more, please contact Jasmine Ako, our VP of External Relations at LACI.ambassador@gmail.com.