Lola Abeni Adeoye is a 2014 alumna of the School of Communications at Howard University. Immediately following graduation, Lola entered Howard University School of Law, where she currently is a 3rd year JD/MBA student. At the law school, Lola has the pleasure of serving as the President of the Sports and Entertainment Law Students Association and Graduate Student Assembly Secretary. She has had the pleasure of taking several intellectual property related courses which has solidified her interest in becoming an entertainment attorney. This past semester, she was honored to be a Student Attorney in the Intellectual Property and Trademark Clinic at the Howard Law Clinical Center, which gave her the experience needed to be selected as an intern in Viacom’s Business and Legal Affairs Department for BET Networks this upcoming summer. Outside of law school, Lola loves to serve her community through various avenues, including her church home Graceland Bible Faith and her beloved sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. As Miss Nigeria USA, Lola’s year of service will focus on her platform Suicide and Depression Awareness and Prevention, an issue dear to her heart. Her platform aims to expand the Nigerian Suicide Prevention Initiative from Abuja into the remaining 35 states in Nigeria and to also lobby to the Nigerian government for the review and update of the Mental Health Act, which has not been reviewed since 1959. She hopes that through these actions, the stigma of mental healthcare in Nigeria will be broken.