 Hi, I'm Stephanie Minton and I went to Carleton to the Public Affairs and Policy Management Program. Today I work at the University of Canada, where I'm a specialist in government relations. Since I graduated from Carleton, I've worked at World Vision and NGO and a consulting firm, National Public Relations, doing consulting. Carleton really prepared me for this type of experience, partially because it was an interdisciplinary program where you were able to build skill sets, to be able to have the skill sets that employers are looking for today. One of the other things that was really fantastic about Carleton is having access to being in Ottawa, where I was able to, through the Residence Association, volunteer at Parliament Hill and work for different members of Parliament, which definitely helped me get to the type of experience that employers have been looking for, for the type of field that I've ended up in today. One of the other things that Carleton's really good at was supporting me to be able to go abroad when I was accepted to be a delegate for the APEC Summit in South Korea. And they were able financially to support me in doing that. And since then, lots of the different jobs that I've had have been impacted by being able to have that international experience at Monner's. During my program at Carleton, I also learned things about how government works and the different steps to make things happen in government, which doing government relations now has been integral to me being able to do my job well.