>> I had wanted to do this since I was in grade school.
But when I was in grade school women couldn't even be FBI agents so I went to college
and graduate school not realizing that someday there would be a BAU and someday I could get
into the FBI so my ah-ha moment actually occurred when I was really a little girl
and I'm not sure what contributed to that but I always thought to myself I want
to know what goes on inside someone's head when they commit murder.
And I think that's a little bit strange [laughter] for a little girl to have those kinds
of questions but I always had them and I was intrigued by behavior that was unusual,
criminal and it just motivated me throughout my education.
I went to Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois where I received a bachelor's degree
in Psychology with a minor in Sociology.
I went to Kent State in Ohio for one semester for my master's degree and then transferred
over to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale,
Illinois and received a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counselling.
Then I moved to San Francisco, California for work and I entered a PhD program
in Public Administration and received that while I was working, going to night school.
So, and then once I became a FBI agent they put you through a lot of training,
for example, interviewing training.
They put you through training on just a whole variety of topics.
And then once I became a profiler then the training became very specific, forensics,
blood spatter pattern analysis, psychiatric issues, behavioral issues,
more interviewing, crime scene analysis.
So the training became much more focused once I became a profiler.
But formally that was my academic training.