Welcome to Tech Policy Podcast. I'm your host, Ashken Kazarian.

Today, I'm very excited to release our special International Women's Day episode.

This conversation about women in STEM, in policy, in D.C., in America, in the world, continues.

It is crucial to know more about everyday heroes, smart and persistent women that

passionately work to make the world a better place. So after podcasts, I started asking my guests

about their career paths, what made them choose this life, and what drives them. This is the first

of many episodes that shares amazing stories and I hope inspires you.

It's my honor to host G GZahn.

She is a former president and co-founder of a prominent think tank public knowledge.

She was a counselor to the FCC Chairman Wheeler and is now a distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law at their Institute for Technology Law and Policy

and also as a Mozilla Policy Fellow. So Gigi, you are one of the first women in tech policy

that I've heard of and read about and you are a very prominent figure in the D.C. world. People are

very passionate to debate you, to agree with you,

to follow you. How did you end up doing what you're doing and found your passion in this field?

So I studied broadcasting in film as an undergraduate Boston University. The internet wasn't a thing then.

I mean, it was, you know, a thing in universities. So what

you studied at the time was TV, radio, cable. And I started to get interested after deciding

I was not going to be a professional sportscaster in the policy and the law surrounding television

and radio and cable. So it was media largely.

And that's what sent me to law school. Now, out of law school, the job opportunities were

not particularly attractive for a communications lawyer. So I went into a law firm that did aviation law, of all things.

And I actually enjoyed it, but it really wasn't my passion. It's not what I wanted to do.

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