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And our thanks to Strata for being a longtime friend and supporter of this podcast. My name is Andrea Little Ambago. I am a computational social scientist.

What I wish I had known is that there is no straight line between what you think you want to do and then where you end up going. Mine was very circuitous and so I off you an undergrad was a romance language in

government major so I really getting back to my love of international relations you

know I started there and then what you took about year off, worked in Breckenridge, Colorado as a waitress, and you prepared for grad school.

And then in grad school it was a political science new focus on international relations and

methodology as my core components and by methodology that basically means modeling in a quantitative way how do you

model everything from regime type democracies to authoritarian regimes to what you know the

relationship between military personnel and foreign direct investment.

After grad school and I got my degree, I taught briefly at New York University

and then the Department of Defense reached out to me at a conference and I

Chatted with them and I ended up going to work at the joint warfare analysis center which is in Dahlgren Virginia and

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