>> So I went to Pomona College.
I graduated in 2008.
I was a media studies major.
Why did I choose this path?
I just feel like I fell into it.
I, as I mentioned before, really always, especially at school and afterwards,
really active and interested in social justice and organizing.
And I originally started out doing work very different from this.
I was involved in sort of grassroots voter registration efforts
and [inaudible] sort of specific engagement work.
I lived in the state of Oregon and ended up working
for our state representative for a while.
And for me that really tapped into a lot of the sort of issue passion
that I had fostered at school, was exposed to there.
The thing that I found over time was that I was missing creativity
and also that politics is a hard sport.
And I ended up sort of getting attracted to working on, like, newsletters
and making websites for Canada, some things like that.
And then I was like, maybe there is something there.
Maybe what I'm interested in is the way that we tell stories about these issues and the way
that we make things easy for people to use, and sort of in the moment of retrospection
and reflection realize I kind of wanted to pivot and focus more on design and figure out how
to use that interest and creativity for the issues that I care about.