>> I'm a Millersville University Grad, Class of 2010 and 2012.
I came in as a meteorology major, and about my junior year,
well the summer before my senior year, I had an internship
in Colorado where I studied hurricanes.
And as I was studying the hurricane process and oscillation, because its meteorology,
I thought, wow, I really like hurricanes.
This damage is kind of cool.
Oh, people are being effected.
Why didn't they prepare?
And I started to involve in that, and then think, well, you know,
I don't want to do research all the time and I like to talk to people.
So I want to get out in the field.
So, after my internship I came back from my senior year.
I talked to one of my professors who led me into emergency management, which we have here
in the Center of Disaster Research in Education, the CDRE, and I started my masters here
in 2010, right after my undergrad year.
And completed that in 2012.
So after I graduated in 2012 I actually moved to Oklahoma.
I wanted to go to grad school for my PhD, and I also wanted to move away from Pennsylvania.
I had been here for a while.
I thought, you know, move, I don't have any attachments.
Family is here, but, you know, I'll come back eventually.
And so I moved to Oklahoma and I went to Oklahoma State for a semester.
PhD program for fire and emergency management.
Schooling takes a lot on somebody.
So it took a while, and it real-- I realized that, you know,
I wasn't ready spend another five years in school.
And that-- and that's okay.
You know, I had done what I needed to do and I was ready to get out into the working world.
So after my one semester at Oklahoma State, I-- I luckily found a job at Tulsa, Oklahoma.
So I just moved to the eastern part of the state into Tulsa.
And worked as the Finance and Grants Coordinator--
Coordinator in Tulsa Area Emergency Management.
From there I stayed for about a year, and then decided that it was time to come home.
I was missing family, I was missing friends, and I had stumbled upon the job in Chester County,
and it just seemed like a very good opportunity to switch.
I like finances and grants, but it's not my favorite thing in emergency management.
So, I got offered a train exercise, so once I had gotten
that I moved back in January of this year.
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