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(Music and text on screen: Women of DHS)

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How does DHS work to further equity and equality?)

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If you think about it,

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what's extraordinary about this department is five of the eight

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components are led by women and women from an incredibly diverse

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background, from Deanne Criswell to Jen Easterly to Ur

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Jaddou, we really have extraordinary women leaders.

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And I think we just need to continue to look to 
develop not just those

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leaders, but the next generation behind them.

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(Music and text on screen: What influences led to your decision to join DHS?)

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I am a DHS lifer

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in the sense that I came as the chief privacy officer in 2009

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and fell in love with the Homeland Security mission.

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When I was privacy officer,

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it's such an important mission and you really need to

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integrate privacy into the operations of an organization.

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So at DHS, privacy has to be integrated into all of our operations.

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Otherwise we'll lose credibility.

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We'll lose trust,

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and we'll lose our ability to actually operate and support

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and defend the department.

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What career advice would you give your younger self?

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I mean, candidly, I

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think every career has obstacles.

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What I would think about telling my younger self is don't

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just have a linear job.

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Just don't think you're going to go one to the other to the next.

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I'm an expert in privacy, which is a field that didn't exist when

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I graduated law school.

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I work at a department that didn't exist when I graduated

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from law school.

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What is your experience being a female leader?)

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I try to represent being a strong female leader,

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but also acknowledging my gender and my role in the world.

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Sometimes that's not well received.

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Sometimes that may be an environment that they haven't seen

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that before. But I think it's really important to have my true self

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be the leader that I want to be

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at CWMD.

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Why is it important to have female leaders at DHS?)

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It's important to

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see people that you resemble and that you can see yourself in that role.

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And that's what I'm trying to represent as assistant secretary.

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