Dr. Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel is currently a professor at Duke teaching data science. She got her first degree at NYU in acturial science and worked for two years in the field, mainly calculating how many years people had left to live after retirement, before realizing she didn’t want to do it for the rest of her life. Due to the nature of actuary jobs, it would be difficult to change careers down the road. Thus, 2 years after she started her career, she entered the statistics Phd program at UCLA. In her Phd program, Dr. Cetinkaya-Rundel enjoyed being a teaching assistant which led to her current career as a professor. As a Phd student, she worked on an open source project called OpenIntro that gave students free access to introductory content of different subjects. She also coleads Data Fest and works part time for RStudio.