For Maria Jose Mullet ’25, life since graduating from Bryant University has been filled with opportunity. From having worked as an account executive for the advertising and marketing company DDB Latina Puerto Rico, where she was a liaison between the company’s beverage and restaurant clients and their creative teams, to bringing events to life for Distrito T-Mobile and Boletera, Mullet is merging her love of communicating with others and her passion for entertainment.
“Making live events happen is an interesting combination. I get the creative, cultural, and managing parts but also the fun event production portion,” says Mullet, who majored in Communication and hails from San Juan, Puerto Rico. “Bryant helped me build the skills I have now and apply to my work.”
As a production assistant for Distrito T-Mobile, one of Puerto Rico’s premier event venues, Mullet participates in every aspect of event production. She helps decorate the space in alignment with the production’s vision, facilitates event admission, gets bands ready for performances, sets up the venue’s cameras, and captures onstage action and crowd involvement to put up on the facility’s big screen and increase engagement.
“My favorite part is seeing the result of the hard work we put into an event and seeing people enjoying the shows, content, and social media. The likes, comments, and posts all mean we are doing a good job,” says Mullet, who also assists with ticket sales and coordinating live events for Boletera, an event management and promotion company.
Mullet chose Bryant because of its strong Communication program and small class sizes, which promised individualized attention. Through courses like “Public Speaking” and “Crisis and Risk Communication,” she quickly discovered that to be true, and Mullet found mentors among the university’s faculty and staff, including Chris Morse, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Communication and Language Studies department.
As someone with ADHD, Mullet says Bryant’s support system played an important role in helping her find success.
“My way of learning is not everybody's way of learning, but Bryant has a good concept of trying to help everyone in the way that they need it,” she notes.
In her first year on campus, she worked one-on-one with Bryant’s Academic Center for Excellence staff to schedule tutoring appointments, create her schedule week to week, and learn effective studying strategies. When it came time to take exams, Mullet also received accommodations — such as being able to complete exams in the Academic Testing Center as opposed to the classroom — that helped her concentrate better and excel academically.
That assistance, and her own hard work, paid off. Mullet consistently made Dean’s List, was inducted into Lambda Pi Eta — the National Communication Association’s academic honor — and participated in Bryant’s chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals for America.
But, she adds, the role Bryant played in helping her launch her career didn’t stop there. When Mullet was applying for internships and jobs, the university’s Amica Center for Career Education assisted her with fine-tuning her resume.
“I worked almost every month trying to adjust my resume depending on who I was sending it to and what the position was,” she shares.
Beyond her academic pursuits, Mullet, who played basketball in high school, became the student manager for Bryant’s women’s basketball team during her sophomore year, which helped her gain skills in leadership, management, and problem-solving.
In her senior year, Mullet was able to further hone her talents as Bryant Athletics’ social media and sports analyst, which led to her managing teams’ social platforms, recording gameday sports analytics during games, and producing content strategies — all good preparation for her future, as she eventually wants to apply the event planning skills she’s learning to the sports industry.
Looking back on her Bryant journey, Mullet has the following advice for current students.
“Join clubs and be involved. I met so many people that I'm still friends with from going to events and being engaged,” she says. “And for those who are graduating, enjoy these last moments, because they go by way too fast.”