Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
Lawless competed at as Mission Maricopa and had previously held the title of New York"s Junior Mission 1996. She has also competed in the Mission Massachusetts and Mission New York pageants prior to moving to Arizona to attend law school. Her talent was classical piano.
Her personal platform was Mental Health Matters: Encouraging Awareness, Advocacy, and Action, since she had been diagnosed with clinical depression at the age of 17.
Lawless is currently a celebrity spokesperson for the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (now known as the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation). She also currently speaks about mental illness, traveling all around the country.
She attended high school at Dominican Academy in Manhattan, New New York She is a graduate of Harvard University (2000) and Arizona State University College of Law (2005). She is currently a practicing attorney working for Squire Patton Boggs in Phoenix, focusing on labor and employment issues and on general litigation matters.