What you do now, professionally:
Journalist & TV producer
Why you do it (what motivates you, why you find this work interesting or meaningful):
I worked inside the tech industry for many years. Now I cover it from the outside.
How you got here:
Tech Industry for 25 years; Journalist for 15
What your background in Urban Studies has done for you:
Allowed me to leverage my writing and research skills to build one of tech industry's first government relations programs in the 1980s. I still travel a lot and every time I visit a city, I see the architecture, transit systems and commercial core through the eyes of an Urban Studies major.