Professional Profile

  
    Mackenzie Donohue was born in New York, NY, is currently 17 years old and is attending Frank McCourt High School. Last summer (summer 2012), Mackenzie went to Spain as a volunteer, helping Spanish teenagers with their English. She also went to a camp in New Jersey in which she was a counselor-in-training. In the summer of 2013, Mackenzie will be working at that same camp now as a counselor. Being a counselor gives Mackenzie leadership skills, and helps her become more responsible.
    Mackenzie is now attending Frank McCourt High School in which she is on the schools volleyball and tennis teams. Mackenzie loves being committed to these sports because it keeps her busy and it is overall very fun. Being on sports teams is very important to Mackenzie because she believes that it builds great leadership qualities and it also teaches you how to be a team player. These are great qualities to have in life because there will be times where you have to work with different people and make decisions for the benefit of a group. Mackenzie was also a part of the student government, in which she had to represent her advisory, and voice her opinions on bettering the school.
    In the future Mackenzie plans to continue with sports, graduate high school and go to college. Although Mackenzie doesn’t have a specific college or career in mind she does know that she wants to leave New York City. Mackenzie also plans to someday, study a year of college abroad, in a country such as England.