>> Well I did my undergraduate work at Cal State University Long Beach and I came here because at
that time, it was really a great reputation and the physical education/kinesiology department
and I really wanted to be part of that.
I saw myself as really somebody
who would probably be a coach and so I started my career here.
At the end of my first year, I ended up joining the women's golf team.
So I played golf here at Long Beach State.
And then from getting my degree and my teaching credential, I went on to look at Master's work
in educational leadership from Azusa [phonetic] Pacific University with really my eye on,
at some point, becoming a school administrator.
Wanting to be a principal or something like that.
But it was, you know, certainly going through the ranks.
Teaching and coaching and such about let's see, I guess probably eight or nine years
into my teaching role, I had the opportunity given to me by a superintendent
to become an assistant principal which was much earlier
than I thought my career path would take me.
But I did -- so I did that as in an interim position and then went
on to become an administrator in the Ocean View School District down the road.
And started my work at Cal State or at the University of Southern California Rossier School
of Education to get my doctorate in educational leadership in urban setting.
It's kind of the pathway that I took.