>> Well I attended Long Beach State.
I graduated in '98 and I majored in Human Development
with a minor in Elementary Education.
Simultaneously, I was also competing on the women's golf team.
So, I also was a scholar athlete.
And the idea of becoming a teacher actually started back when I was, I want to say,
in early elementary school and I was home sick, and that was the day that the Challenger,
that went up in space, and Christa McAuliffe, being the first teacher to go to outer space
as we all watched on TV, and I thought that I wanted
to be the next teacher to go to outer space.
So I definitely embraced the idea of, "How do you become an astronaut and a teacher?"
along the way.
So, coming to Long Beach State I had a chance to compete in a sport that I love dearly and focus
on a career in education and work towards it.
After that, I pursued a Master's degree at the University of Wisconsin Madison,
where I focused on Educational Leadership and Policy.
That was because I then wanted to take what I did in the classroom
to the administrative role, and spread the love throughout.
And after fulfilling a couple positions in that role, I then pursued my doctoral degree
at the University of Southern California where I majored in Education Administration.