>> Well, I have kind of a roundabout way of getting to where I am today.
I went to USC and actually was a Film Critical Studies major and I minored in journalism
and I really wasn't sure at all what I wanted to do.
I absolutely loved studying film but I loved more the academic side of it.
I wasn't so much a production person and so I graduated and I just had no idea.
I think on one hand I had no idea what I wanted to do but on the other hand I wanted
to do everything and so I decided to after graduation join AmeriCorps
which is a national service program, so you get placed with a nonprofit for a year
and so I ended up getting hired by Jumpstart, the national nonprofit and I worked with them
for a year and I really enjoyed it.
I fell in love with the mission and the people there
and so after my year finished I then got hired full-time as a staff member there so I worked,
my first position there I worked, primarily with AmeriCorps
in helping manage our AmeriCorps grant that Jumpstart gets and then
from there I transitioned into development so working more with foundations
and with our corporate sponsors to really help kind of guide them and help them invest
in Jumpstart as well and then after that I transitioned now
to USC and managing the program here.