>> So the Women's Leadership Initiative really helped me to set myself apart.
It was a very select program.
My professors had to nominate me to apply and then once I applied, I had to be selected.
For our hospitality school, it's smaller compared to the other schools in the college
so only three of us were selected.
So that was quite an honor, but College of Health and Human Development,
I got to sit with people that were running hospitals that were in all different aspects
of service industries and kind of learned from them while they learned from me as well.
And again, this was -- it was very ladies oriented, and it was really nice
to just meet all of these powerful women that are out there in my industry
and other industries that were also Penn State alumni and just be able to listen to them,
listen to their experiences and be able to follow in what they were doing as well.