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I’ve spent the last dozen or so years as a corporate lawyer doing the “big firm” thing while living on the upper west side of manhattan (with some periodic stints in Italy, which was fun, but not quite as fun as it would have been if I didn’t actually have to go to work every day). After a brief detour into unemployment during the financial crisis of 2009 (where I finally got to relax, if by ‘relax’ you mean continually stress about finding a new job), I now work in-house at a very big corporation.

Prior to being a lawyer, I went to law school at Penn after getting my B.A. at SUNY Buffalo, where I majored in “not planning to actually get a job after college.”  Fortunately, my joint degree in women’s studies and political science comes in handy as an amusing anecdote when trying to explain how I ended up as a corporate/securities lawyer, so it wasn’t entirely a waste of my parents’ money.

I grew up in the wild suburban environs of Rockland County, NY, where I dreamed of moving to greenwich village from the time I was 6 years old.  I managed to live in the actual village for a total of two months, at which point I realized that it wasn’t all that enjoyable to live in the middle of the NYU campus while not actually being a student there.  Now that I’m in my thirties, I’ve settled very nicely into the yuppie-dom of the upper west side with Sadie, my recently adopted cat.

I used to aspire to be a do-gooder (and am still one at heart), but these days I leave the selfless sacrifice and attempts to make the world a better place to my brother, who followed a two-year stint in the peace corps with obtaining a masters in education from the NYC teaching fellows program, a year building libraries in nepal, a trip through Africa to investigate schools and finally, starting in the Fall 2011, he’ll study for a second masters in international development at the London School of Economics. Slacker.

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