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Went to Penn State College of Communications.
I was an ad PR major, class of '02 and loved it.
Penn State taught me a lot.
I was able to hone my skills and learning how to do communications and different publicity
and media sales, and just the business world in general.
I came to Special Olympics in kind of a roundabout way.
I worked in the for-profit world for quite a while for the first part of my career.
I worked at AND1 Basketball, and I worked at Reebok and worked in the sporting goods industry
for a while, and then had a bit of a whirlwind --
did an around-the-world trip with my younger brother, and as part of that,
came back and really realized that I wanted to work on another side of sports
and pursued the nonprofit space, and applied for a position in communications
with the Special Olympics at our headquarters in Washington DC,
and that's going on seven years now.