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Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire Hello, my name is Anisha Patel.

I'm an associate director at Raytheon Intelligence and Space based in Washington, D.C., and I work in the Cyber Protection Services Division.

I would like to say it was some momentous, you know, like dawning of experience that I had.

But honestly, it just comes down to the fact that, you know,

I grew up as a first generation American from an Asian household.

So our focus was always mostly on on STEM related type of topics.

So the choices of things we had to do in life always centered around science,

technology, engineering, and math. As a child, I was always interested in math. That was my

strong suit, more than like the life sciences. So that basically ruled out medicine pretty quickly.

Since I had a strong desire to focus on math,

I selected engineering as my career choice. My parents were also from a math and engineering background.

That's what folks came here from other countries to excel in, stick to what's tried and tested,

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