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Hello, my name is Artie Lawani, and I am a knowledge leader for risk management and privacy at Align.

I remember being in college and sitting pretty undecided about what I wanted my major to be. So I sat down with my parents and I told

them that I was thinking about maybe taking a teaching career path. However, I grew up with very

traditional Indian parents. So if you were not a doctor or an engineer or going to marry a doctor or an engineer, your career

choice was probably worthless. So I know after like many, many discussions, we finally decided

that I would stick with finance as a major. And I graduated with a finance degree and jumped into the financial job for a few years

until one day I realized, wow, this is not me.

My parents always undoubtedly were a great support system for me.

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