Michelle Nelson

See Michelle’s University of Illinois profile

Associate Professor, Department of Advertising, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

I am involved in this project because:

I’m involved with this project because I want to inspire young people to create media messages that will show off the beauty & adventure of Kickapoo State Park to other teens. I hope to increase their advertising literacy through the creation and production process and, perhaps, recruit some of the teens to consider advertising as a career.

My best experience at Kickapoo so far is:

My paddle boat adventure and rescue and floating pooh-sticks down the stream with my children, Lukas, age 4, and Paulina, age 2.