 I'm Sasha Mer, the co-founder and CEO of Mamava in Burlington, Vermont, and this is why you should choose UVM. I am a UVM graduate class of 93. I studied sociology and women's studies, so actually my degree fed perfectly into my career as a mission-oriented business leader. I needed to travel a lot when I had kids. I also wanted to continue to breastfeed when they were babies, and what I found that there was just no place for women to privately use a breast pump besides a restroom, and Mamava was born. Running the business in Vermont has been amazing because of the community's close ties to each other. I often use this expression like Vermont too small to fail in that if you have an idea you positively can network in the Vermont community to get it done. I think sometimes Vermont has this reputation for being all hippies or kind of out there, and yeah there's an independent spirit, but Vermont and Burlington are filled with really smart people at the cutting edge of the industries they work in, and many of them are associated with the university, so it makes for a really excellent ecosystem to tap into both as a student and as an entrepreneur. I think there's something special about UVM at the time they called it a public IV, and that balance between being a public institution with a private sort of class size, it makes for critical thinkers that also have a really good perspective on the world. When I was at UVM I'd love to be in that intense academic environment and then be able to take an amazing breather by being so close to the out-of-doors and Lake Champlain and the mountains, and to this day I still crest Main Street and look down at Lake Champlain and it takes my breath away.