NEW HAVEN

I grew up in a very small town in rural Missouri called New Haven. My first job was working in a meat processing plant and helping out on my grandparents farm raising black angus cattle! I graduated public high school with a class of 42, no AP credit, and very little college prep. I wasn't even in the top 10%; a C- in Algebra 2 knocked my class rank down to 5. My high school classmates primarily went to East Central Community College, if they continued on to college at all... My father, the superintendent of New Haven, implemented a Chromebook learning program which was incredibly influential on my future in computer science and tech policy. My Chromebook was my first real exposure to computer science, and I saw firsthand how technology can make incredible impacts on peoples' lives, both for better and for worse... My family still lives near New Haven, and I love to visit, mainly to see my dog Elsa, catch up with my sister and brother-in-law Hannah and Keven, play golf with my dad..