I really serve two um two major responsibility so as the The General Counsel I’m the the chief legal officer for the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland um which means that um you know I lead the the the lawyers that really support all the work of the Federal Reserve um so whether it’s you
Know issues relating to contracts or employment issues um or supporting the policy work um but the you know the legal team provides the legal resources and the legal support for those functions and then the other hat that I wear is um the chief risk officer and so
We have a separate group of individuals that provide over risk management oversight for our particular bank and then the second thing that he taught me was he actually connected me to my first first uh outside Community organization he was on the board of a nonprofit and they needed some
Volunteers to kind of do some work on a particular project and he told me you’re going to do this and I was like well I don’t know if I have interest or time and he said no this is what you’re going to do and here’s why and you start
Working with nonprofit organizations you can still build leadership skills conflict management skills strategic management skills you can learn how to read profit and loss statements and um and you can still build those skills and build that profile and they work actually in Tandem and so uh that was
Something that uh that my mentor taught me
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