>> I went to Pomona College, and I studied media studies, which is basically,
the pursued it was a mixture of film and journalism, because I thought I wanted
to edit film when I entered college, and so actually, when I graduated,
I was considering journalism, as opposed to video editing.
I love to write.
I love art.
Media studies sort of sits at the intersection of a lot of these topics.
I loved art criticism, and it also sits at the center of that, but I graduated in 2009,
when it was economic recession, and one of the industries
that got hit really bad was journalism, because of, also,
the technological change was just sort of revolutionizing the industry.
So all that was going on in 2009, and again, I love writing.
I love criticism.
A natural parlay was law.
So I began to look at pre-law type jobs paralegal jobs.
What I did take away from my media studies and film background was the ability to tell stories,
and a lot of what you're doing when you're writing a legal brief is telling a story.
And, in fact, most jobs involve something like that, including consulting.
So I had some steam, I had some momentum in that direction
and pursued a job at the Department of Justice.
This is turning into, like, a long connect-the-dots story, but ultimately,
I realize I want to complement a legal degree with business, and so I went from the Department
of Justice to this consulting firm, and my step will be
to get a combined law and business degree.