>> So I've always been passionate about people and making sure that people feel affirmed
in who they are and their identities and so I studied psychology and sociology
in under grad at Cornell College.
It's a small liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa.
I loved Cornell.
I had such a great experience.
I was able to get so involved in the Cornell community and just in my academics.
Because I was so involved, I wanted to go on to graduate school
for higher education administration and so I came to the University of Denver,
where I got a master's degree
in higher education administration and college student development.
Throughout my time at DU, I worked as a graduate apartment advisor,
so I was kind of like a building manager and then I also worked as an academic advisor
for about a year and a half, partly through my education
and then a little bit after, after grad school too.
It was fun.
I enjoyed that too and I liked the focus on development that education provided me.
When I decided to make the shift to Target, I have family that works for Target, too,
and so they told me all about the opportunities that Target had provided them
to keep them engaged after several years of working for the company.
And I was like they've got to be doing something right.
This is great that my cousins still really enjoy going to work after six years.
And I was like tell me what Target has done to help you grow as a person and my cousin was able
to just tell me all of these different things about how she's learned about herself
through strengths and opportunities and challenging leadership experiences
that Target has given her and I've experienced the same thing since I've been there
and I've been there for almost eight months now.