Brooke Birkel (Psychology) went on to work in healthcare, ensuring compliance for patients. She quickly shifted to IT cybersecurity, where she utilizes the communication skills her degree helped her achieve to become a consultant in the industrial cybersecurity space. Now three years into her career in technology, she works in New York City as an industrial cybersecurity account executive and the only woman account executive at the company. New Paltz gave her the knowledge and confidence to take risks post-college, and she is grateful for that.