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Thank you so much for listening. Commissioner Jennifer Morrison has had a long career in public safety and law enforcement.

However, her trajectory as an advocate became clearer with the life-altering loss of two dear friends during her formative college years.

It is with this same passion for justice and advocacy that she began a prolific career in public safety,

becoming the first female police chief of Colchester County, Vermont,

and the first female public safety commissioner of the state of Vermont.

Her most recent related efforts in the media are what brought us together, though.

The Broken Cycle Media team is so grateful she was willing to share all that came next in her journey of advocacy,

which includes the creation of her riveting, impactful program, The Hero Maker Podcast.

Thanks for having me. My name is Jennifer Morrison. I grew up in a small town in New Hampshire.

Athletics and academics came really easy to me. When I was 12, I started playing

soccer. It just became my passion. All my other athletic pursuits went on the back burner.

I went to college at George Washington University on an athletic scholarship to play Division I

soccer. I spent four years down there and I think my sense of the world

changed a lot in those four years. I left the confines of my small town in New Hampshire and

arrived in the big city in Washington, D.C. figured out in the first couple of days how to ride the

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