 I found that I could use, you know, this love of news that I had always had and combine that with free market economics. I'm Kate Delanoi and I am the Director of Communications here at Mercatus. I was raised in a household that was very interested in politics, current events, history, culture, and so there was constantly opportunities to learn about what was happening in the world and I was really interested. When I was a little kid, I was very into the OJ trial and I would ask my dad every day after school, you know, what had happened and what did that mean? And I just really appreciated my parents supporting my interests in what was happening. They always had a newspaper around, we're always excited to talk about the things that were happening and so that really shaped who I was and my dad had majored in economics and had a free market economics bend. So when I was getting ready to go to college, he mentioned a place called Hillsdale, which is where I ended up going and they actually have a strong Austrian economics department and it was a really interesting experience because the things I learned about economics there were almost the opposite in some ways of the economics that I had learned in my AP Econ class, which was much more of a Keynesian focus. When I graduated and started interning and working out in DC and came to Mercatus, I found that I could use, you know, this love of news that I had always had and combine that with free market economics and it's what makes me excited to come into work every day and it's what's made Mercatus home.