 Mona Quintanilla started at Purdue in pharmacy, left school, and returned ten years later to earn a chemistry degree that would eventually launch her to success with Procter & Gamble. My name is Mona Quintanilla. I'm a 1986 chemistry major from Purdue. I went out to get a PhD in California and I Spent almost 20 years as an R&D scientist at Procter & Gamble. Coming back to Purdue was a concern for me because I was ten years older than most students, so I feel that that was my giant leap to come back and finish and to go on. So I was fortunate to have contact with Procter & Gamble and even without having to do a postdoc, they hired me. So initially I had started in drug development and moved on after 11 years and I worked on Cascade, your auto-dish detergent and after about three and a half years of working on Cascade, I moved into an area called P&G Professional. So I talked to consumers to understand their unmet needs for products and make sure that they use them properly and listened very carefully to understand how they liked it, how they used it, and then took all that information and translated it into technical jargon so that our Formulators could change the formula so that they could improve the experience that our consumers needed. My legacy at Purdue, I would say is giving back. I've given back many ways. You know, initially in my involvement as an undergrad, but then as I've been, you know, gone through my career and now that I'm retired, I can give back a lot of ways with my time. I've been involved with many organizations on campus. You know, the Kevin Department of Advisory Committee, College of Science Alumni Board. I was a director of the Purdue Alumni Association for six years. Thanks to Purdue and the people I've met and the degrees I have received at Purdue and then after leaving Purdue, I cannot believe that I am in a position where I'm able to give back as much as I can. And it makes me very proud to be a Boilermaker. That was Mona Quintanilla. Look for more stories at purdue.edu slash footprints.