Alison Cheperdak

Thank you so much for having me.

So I studied journalism and political science in college.

I went to Villanova University.

And at the time, I was interning basically anywhere that would take me.

So I interned at the ABC Hearst flagship in Boston, and then in Fox in Philadelphia, and NBC in Philadelphia, and then also for a public access station where I was a multimedia journalist.

And then I graduated from college.

I worked first as a one-man fan reporter in upstate New York for the Plattsburgh, Vermont market, if you're familiar, if anyone here is in media too.

Yeah.

and then was able to get more experience on the anchor desk as I was there a little bit longer.

And at the time, I was covering general assignment news, so really wanted to cover legal stories and political stories.

And so that's what inspired me to go to law school.

And I moved to Washington where I got into the George Washington University Law School and then ended up working in government and practicing law and eventually got into all of this etiquette.

So I was in law school during the first election cycle and really wanted to work in the White House or wanted to work in the administration more generally.

And despite all of my efforts, I did not land a position on day one of the first term.

And so I worked in a large corporate law firm.

So I started my career in big law after I graduated.

And then I was at a Christmas party for a

a conservative group that I was a part of, really involved in, in law school at the Dolly Madison House over by the White House.

And I saw an old boss from the Hill, and they were looking for someone to start yesterday.

And it was at the US Treasury.