>> I started at Pomona, actually started out thinking I was going to be a theater major.
The summer before I went to Pomona, I worked in a theater, and I met all these actors
and directors and set design people, and they were all really energetic, inquisitive people,
and I just kind of realized that I valued that kind of energy,
and I realized that the most interesting people were the kinds of people who ask a lot
of questions, and I was, like, oh, like, wanted to be one of these people.
So I did that for a couple years, and then, I realized, it's a really draining lifestyle,
and not very lucrative, and while I really enjoyed it,
I didn't know if I could sustain it in the long term.
So I looked, was looking around for something else that was also kind of had creativity to it,
and involved asking a lot of questions and trying to think outside your own experience.
So actually switched to be being a religious studies major, in part, also,
because I really love the Pomona Religious Studies Department.
They're so great.
And then I kind of picked up anthropology alongside that and then went and got a master's
in anthropology and within that focused on medical anthropology and the study
of health care and then had had a couple internships along the way in women's health
and international health, and after that, I got my first job at a women's health organization
in New York City called Engender Health, and yeah.