What was the job search like?
When I graduated from UR, I didn’t take advantage of the amazing Career Center that the university offered. Rather, I naively focused on trying to get a job on my own. Despite my attempt to be independent, Richmond managed to land me my first job. Shortly after graduation, I knew I wanted to turn my campus activism around diversity issues into a political organizing career. During college, I became enchanted by a national organization called The White House Project whose president, Marie Wilson, was a featured speaker at Westhampton College’s Women in Living and Learning Forum. She spoke out about the importance of bringing women’s voices into the political process and pointed out that the number of female elected officials in our nation hovered at around eight percent. As soon as some of my professors heard I wanted to work at WHP, they used their relationship with the organization’s president to offer amazingly enthusiastic recommendations. Not just one recommendation, but two—and I
