About Me

The One and Only Alia Thompson*

(Well... last time I checked.)

I’m a strategist at Wieden+Kennedy — and just a girl from Dorchester (yes, same neighborhood as Mark Wahlberg), so I learned to hustle early.

Before heading out West Coast to join W+K PDX, I traveled the world, lived overseas (picked up a little Castellano along the way), and worked for the Boston Red Sox and Under Armour — all before I turned 21. Yep, I took résumé building seriously back in.

I never dreamed of working in advertising — I kind of stumbled into it and fell in love with strategy. The way it shifts minds, shapes culture, and helps brands figure out who they really are?

I’ve been lucky to work on brands close to my heart, like DoorDash, Old Spice, and Major League Baseball.

When I’m not building brands, I’m on the tennis court, upside down at pole class, or lost in a TikTok-recommended romance novel.