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Charity Wright: Pursue what you love. [Threat intelligence] [Career Notes]

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

While our team is out on winter break, please enjoy this episode of Career Notes. Threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future, Charity Wright, shares her story from the army to her career today. Transitioning from the army to cybersecurity was an exciting change for her. During college she was recruited by the U.S. army where she started her journey and learned new skills paving her pathway to threat intelligence where she is now. She shares that she works with a great team of junior analysts who are constantly checking each others' biases which helps keep Charity grounded in her work. Charity spends her days keeping an eye on threats around the world where she says there is never a dull day in her line of work. We thank Charity for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.6

Hello, my name is Charity Wright, and I'm a threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future.

1:28.2

When I was young, I wanted to be an Olympic figure skater, which did not happen, but it was

1:38.0

something to strive after.

1:40.8

When I was maybe in late high school, I started really taking an interest in the world around me, international relations.

1:48.0

So I guess that did lead to studying international studies at the University of North Texas.

1:56.0

I was in my third year of college when a hulking man in uniform approached me in the food court area and said,

2:06.9

I was wondering if I could sit down and talk to you about the U.S. Army.

2:11.5

And he was actually one of the rare recruiters that knew about the Army linguist program. And he was recruiting

2:19.8

college students specifically that could test into the linguist program. And, you know, it captured

2:26.6

my interest right away, learning a foreign language, getting out of my parents' house, moving to

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