WEBVTT 00:00:00.009 --> 00:00:02.576 I'm an Arizona person. I was born in New Orleans, but we moved here when 00:00:02.609 --> 00:00:08.576 I was 4.5. So, so I went to uh ran to Solano Kindergarten, which is right 00:00:08.609 --> 00:00:13.865 in Phoenix on Missouri and Seventh Avenue. And uh actually, it's between 00:00:13.898 --> 00:00:18.006 Central and Seventh, I think. But, and then I went to Solano uh grade 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:23.515 school uh which is on 15th Avenue in Missouri. And uh uh it went through 00:00:23.548 --> 00:00:27.035 sixth grade and that's where I um got to be very close to our librarian. 00:00:27.068 --> 00:00:32.616 This is Helene Carroll and then I went to Grand View, which was for 7th 00:00:32.649 --> 00:00:36.856 and 8th grade because Solano, I didn't have the 7th and 8th. And from 00:00:36.889 --> 00:00:40.076 there went to central high school and there weren't many kids from Gray 00:00:40.109 --> 00:00:44.385 who went to Central most went to West High. So I had to, again, find new 00:00:44.418 --> 00:00:47.085 friends, but that was good. That was really good for me. Um Because again 00:00:47.118 --> 00:00:52.746 , I was very shy and um I needed to actually push myself a little bit. So 00:00:52.779 --> 00:00:56.717 I went to Central um had a great experience there. I had, I'd say one of 00:00:56.750 --> 00:00:59.765 the most influential teachers. I had a couple of influential teachers. I 00:00:59.798 --> 00:01:04.635 had one was my eighth grade English teacher who was really tough and uh 00:01:04.668 --> 00:01:11.956 taught me a ton. And to, even to this day, I'm an incredibly uh detailed 00:01:11.989 --> 00:01:17.266 editor and grammar is extremely important to me. I kind of fallen by the 00:01:17.299 --> 00:01:23.516 wayside, sadly for me. But uh so I actually um have a strong reputation 00:01:23.549 --> 00:01:29.947 for that to be being able to uh really be a, a strong writer and editor. 00:01:29.980 --> 00:01:34.947 And I really attribute her, um, beating me on the head for that. Uh And 00:01:34.980 --> 00:01:38.727 then I had a high school chemistry teacher. Um I took advanced chemistry 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:43.087 and then I became his teacher's aide and his name is ARN Arnold Bright. 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:47.995 And he had a really big influence on me because he was just so passionate 00:01:48.028 --> 00:01:51.686 about what he did and what I think the influence was find that, you know, 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:54.376 don't settle for something else, find something that you're passionate 00:01:54.409 --> 00:01:58.066 about because you could just see it in everything he did. And I loved 00:01:58.099 --> 00:02:04.775 being his, his student assistant, chemistry, chemistry. Yeah. Bye now. Yep. 00:02:04.808 --> 00:02:08.646 Um, but I, you know, I'm a curious person. I always say that and I think 00:02:08.679 --> 00:02:11.396 that's important in the business I'm in is you have to be curious, 00:02:11.429 --> 00:02:13.967 particularly when I work in medicine. You know, if I, and I've got to 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:17.396 really wanna learn science, I've gotta love science. And if I can't really 00:02:17.429 --> 00:02:20.916 talk to a benefactor about the role of immuno of T cells in immunotherapy. 00:02:20.949 --> 00:02:25.356 Then I'm not gonna get anywhere. Um So, yeah, so then I went to Central, 00:02:25.389 --> 00:02:31.547 um my mom really was insistent that we all go to college. Um But I really 00:02:31.580 --> 00:02:36.525 was realistic to know that I, even if I was admitted out of state, I 00:02:36.558 --> 00:02:40.755 didn't want to graduate with huge debt. And uh I really felt like I could 00:02:40.788 --> 00:02:46.275 get a strong education in the state. So that's, I limited myself really to 00:02:46.308 --> 00:02:49.957 Arizona State and to ru of a and as I said, I visited both campuses and 00:02:49.990 --> 00:02:54.017 just felt so much more comfortable at Asia. I just felt like that was the 00:02:54.050 --> 00:02:58.396 right fit for me, which it turned out to be and went to central high 00:02:58.429 --> 00:03:03.275 school. And, uh, when I was a junior, my best friend and I, we had, there 00:03:03.308 --> 00:03:06.936 were three of us, actually, two of us decided we wanted to go to a SU and 00:03:06.969 --> 00:03:11.207 one was gonna go to U of A and that the last day of our junior year, one 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:15.767 of my, um, friends, one who was going with me at a SU um, passed away. And 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:19.577 so my other best friend and I went down and looked at U of A and looked at 00:03:19.610 --> 00:03:23.475 a SU to decide because we knew we wanted to stay together. And, uh, we 00:03:23.508 --> 00:03:26.096 just had totally different experiences when we visited the two campuses. 00:03:26.129 --> 00:03:30.316 And I, my best friend decided she'd come here to issue with me. So we, um 00:03:30.349 --> 00:03:33.020 , entered in.