Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, Member Lateral Monkey shares her story from a non-target school all the way to the

front office at a bulge bracket investment bank. Find out what helped her land a rare sophomore summer

internship in capital markets

and why she despised it, why she stayed at the same bank for her junior summer, and what saved

her time and time again. This is part one of a two-part series. Enjoy. Lateral Monkey, thanks so much for joining the Wall Streetoises podcast.

Thank you for having me.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a brief overview of your background.

Sure.

So I graduated from a small liberal arts college in 2016.

I'm originally from the Midwest, the Rust Belt, and I majored in economics with a minor in a regional

studies, with a regional study focus.

And I ended up going to a bulge rack and investment bank.

I did two summers in investment banking during college.

In between, I also co-founded a startup, focused on the healthcare industry.

I did an AMA on this in Wall Street Oasis, but I ended up leaving my investment banking job to go to a more back office oriented role.

It was a strategy role focused on the implementation of artificial intelligence processes on the bank.

And then I have since actually left that role. I backpacked around the world for a few months and I am now looking at opportunities.

So I've had a bit of a very background. It's done a bunch of different things, a slightly

unconventional background for a person. I think I should also mention that I am a woman of color.

So definitely not the most typical profile for an investment of color. So definitely not the most typical profile

for an investment banker, but it's been fun.

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