 I started out as a physics major in undergraduate schooling, and I was always interested in astronomy. I mean, since I was a baby, it was just fascinating to me. I started an internship at the University of Colorado in Boulder with the High Altitude Observatory, which is a place that has solar data, and they study the sun, and I immediately fell in love with the images that I was seeing. I was so impressed with this big ball of fire, that's what I used to think the sun was, and all of a sudden it became this incredible ball of magnetic field and plasma, and to find out that we actually don't know a whole lot about the sun. We do, but there's so much we still have to explore, and it just caught my attention, and that's when I became interested in solar physics specifically. Luckily, I was able to do a PhD program through the University of Oslo in Norway while I was actually still residing in Boulder, Colorado, and it was somewhat of a flexible PhD program, and I was able to take classes in Oslo, but continue to work full-time in Boulder. So it was this fantastic experience and this wonderful program, and after I got my PhD from University of Oslo, I had an opportunity to work at Rice University as a research scientist there, and then an opportunity opened up at Goddard, which is a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and I came here to actually work as the associate director for science originally, and then after three years in that role, I switched over to being lab chief for one of the labs in the Heliophysics Science Division. So it was kind of a long, interesting, somewhat different path than some people take.