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We have a family video of me in the fifth\h
grade coming up to the microphone and saying\h\h

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"When I grow up, I want to be an actress." Well it\h
turns out I'm really not that great on camera so\h\h

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that kind of went away. My name is Ashley\h
Cantor and I am an equal employment opportunity\h\h

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specialist in the Office of Diversity and Equal\h
Opportunity at NASA Glenn Research Center.\h\h

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They're just like "but you're not an engineer."\h
And I'm just like well they have a lot of other\h\h

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opportunities outside of STEM that I feel like\h
people don't really know about. My friends and\h\h

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my family they're always bragging they're like "oh\h
yeah my sister or my friend works at NASA." I have\h\h

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one half sister, two step brothers,\h
and two younger biological sisters,\h\h

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and I adore all of them. My mom\h
was born and raised in Puerto Rico\h\h

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and my dad was born in Colombia and then came to\h
the United States when he was eight years old.\h\h

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I think I would travel into the future I just\h
want to know like what have we accomplished.\h\h

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You know with with everything going on in\h
the world I'd like to know, and I'd like to\h\h

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think that we accomplished some cool things.\h
I am a plant lady, like I love plants. But I\h\h

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want to say I have like 60 plus house plants.\h
I've had multiple instances where people did\h\h

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not believe that I was capable of doing certain\h
things because of my background and who I am.

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So in order to overcome that, I, you know,\h
just kept pushing and prove them wrong.\h\h

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Yes I have a dog named Nikki she is a\h
beagle terrier mix. She's the sassiest\h\h