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Hello, my name is Margaret Cunningham, and I am a principal research scientist for human behavior at Force Point.

So strangely enough, I grew up wanting to be an English professor and pursued that through my

undergraduate where I was a double major in English in psychology at George Washington

University. I finished a master's degree in mental health counseling and quickly figured out that I

am not the best person to provide therapy on a one-in-one level, primarily because I had a hard

time leaving it at work. I went into a PhD program in applied experimental psychology.

And, you know, that transformed my life because I realized that I could provide helping services

and good work services at a broader scale.

I originally started working in healthcare, human factors, looking at how different types of technology like electronic health record systems

impacted care provider performance as well as patient safety factors. I took a role as a consultant

for a company called BMT designers and planners, which was originally British Maritime Technologies.

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