Nellie Boonman, Marketing Assistant, comes from Chicago and is learning all about gardening and starting from seed.

Nellie grew up in a jungle of bedding plants in the Chicago suburbs and moved out to California this summer for the opportunity to contribute to Renee's Garden. As a 2008 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Business Administration and Entrepreneurship graduate, she's excited to work for a small business like Renee's Garden. She's using her technological skills and marketing experience to support Renee's Garden marketing efforts.

Her previous sales & marketing internships at Unilever have given her a solid foundation in consumer marketing research. With this base, Nellie looks forward to helping expand the business and to learning how the company operates.

Before she started at Renee's Garden, Nellie lived in Paris for half a year and took intensive advanced French courses at the Sorbonne. 

In her spare time, Nellie enjoys playing the cello, valiant attempts at exercise, California sunshine, In-N-Out Burgers, thrift shopping, reading blogs, and cooking big Friday meals with her friends in Santa Cruz.