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>> So for my undergraduate, I studied journalism
at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

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And following that, I actually went into
a career in marketing for about six years.

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I worked at some smaller boutique firms
out on the west coast in lovely Oregon.

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I had several high tech clients, but
I recognized that something wasn't --

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something wasn't feeling quite right.

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I was really missing the sense of giving back

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that had been instilled in
me from a very young age.

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So with the help of a mentor,
I took a critical look

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at what I was doing and what
I wanted to be doing.

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And what I wanted to be able to tell
stories about at the end of the career,

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and it really wasn't the stories that I was
coming to tell from my career in marketing.

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So I decided that international response,

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international development
is where I wanted to go.

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For that, I had zero experience.

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So I recognized that I needed to get
some as well as get a Master's degree

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because most everyone in this field or a lot
of folks in this field have a Master's degree.

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So that led me to Penn State School of
International Affairs for my Master's.

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I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do after
that Master's, but I knew I wanted to be

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in the field of international aid or development
relief in some way, really helping people

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in a much more direct way then I
ever had in my previous career.