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I am a huge advocate for innovation

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and growing in, you know…

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Any kind of space

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that you're passionate about.

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I am an associate product manager

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for reliability engineering.

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I help support the engineers

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and giving them all the information

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that they need to help develop a product.

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When I started at Comcast,

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I started as a cloud software engineer.

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I was writing the code

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that impacted the user interface

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and the user experience for the customers

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that were going to use it.

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One thing that I

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really love about Comcast

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is they encourage you

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to find your voice, your path.

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When I came to Comcast

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the BENgineers embraced me

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as an individual in the company

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and help guide me on

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my path as an engineer.

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The BENgineers evolved

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from one of the employee

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resource groups titled BEN,

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which stands for the

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Black Employee Network.

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It's a team of people in the company

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who come together and we share our ideas,

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we support each other,

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we provide guidance...

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And so I think that that is

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absolutely my purpose.

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To be on the forefront of that

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and to be a woman of color in this space

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representing people

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who look like me, and letting them know

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that you can exist here as well

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and you can thrive here.

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And Comcast has allowed me

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the opportunity to do exactly that.