>> I'm actually from a very small down to southern New Jersey.
It's called Atco.
It's not too far from Cherry Hill.
So, it's near Philadelphia and kind of near the beach.
I went to Penn State undergrad.
And I studied international politics while I was there.
And that's kind of international business and poly sci and some economics classes.
I was fortunate to do a study abroad in Salamanca, Spain for part of my junior year,
which was just an amazing experience.
And I worked actually in the private sector when I first came to DC
and then decided to go back to graduate school.
And I have first a graduate certificate in organization development
and then later completed an MBA in federal program management, which basically was a hybrid
between some public administration classes as well
as traditional business administration classes and did that while working full-time,
which is a challenge, and it's not for everybody.
But I will say my time management skills were amazing and impeccable and able to handle it.
And I have been working in federal government since.