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Miami Palmetto High School rising senior Mia Shields is marketing director for Pinecrest City Music Project. Last year she was the associate for the marketing team. She’s been with PCMP since her freshman year.
As marketing director she creates graphics for community marketing and community outreach.
“We reach out to, for example, the councils of Pinecrest and Coconut Grove,” she says. “We have to reel in a lot of support. We’ve contacted news sources. Getting the word out to and getting fellow councilmen to get the word out to their constituents.”
She’s also the marketing director for the student run group, Volunteering Miami. She posts on social media—mostly Instagram—and she occasionally designs logos for small foundations or charities that started under Volunteering Miami.
This will be her fourth year on the Palmetto varsity lacrosse team. This past season has been the best yet.
“We are district champs for the second year in a row, and we won 11 out of 13 games,” she says. “It was our best percentage of wins.”
She started playing lacrosse in middle school.
“When my friend and I had found out about the high school team, we knew we wanted to be part of it,” she says. “We wanted to have a tight community that the team would offer.”
The girls learned together and tried out that spring and became the backbone of the team.
At Palmetto, the senior girls run the pre-season for the lacrosse team. This year, she and her friends are the ones running the pre-season and helping the newer players.
Shields is the current senior design editor for the school newspaper, The Panther.
“I’ll be overseeing the designs for the entire paper,” she says.
She was able to do the last issue of the 2023-24 school year paper on her own, taking over from last year’s leadership.
“It was a really rewarding thing to do,” she says.
This will be her third year on the paper.
“I really like it,” she says. “I got to open a creative side. It’s a fun thing to bring to my high school experience in addition to the academic things I focus on.”
She further uses those design skills to design for a photography company.
“I’ve done freelance things,” she says. “I one time did a sports magazine.”
Shields is also on student council. She spent three years as the Class of 2025 Secretary.
This year she’s the student council secretary.
“Student council is such a fun way to meet people,” she says. “When you do events, you’re seeing new faces and talking to people who have questions. To get others to be involved is so important.”
She works hard to reach her fellow students to let them know about events at school. She worries that not everyone is getting the information.
“A big problem at my school is lack of awareness,” she says. “People don’t even know where important offices are. We try so hard. But social media only goes so far.”
Once again, this year she’s vice president of competition for Rho Kappa and is a member of a History Bowl team.
She is a member of Tutoring for Tomorrow.
“That has been one of my favorite extracurriculars so far,” she says.
She’s also in the National Honor Society, Interact and the English National Honor Society. She’s the special events coordinator for Dance Marathon.
For college, she’s undecided on her major because there are so many things she’s interested in. She’s likely to apply to Duke, the University of Florida, Vanderbilt, Boston University and the University of North Carolina.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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