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Episode #24: Bree Jenkins, industrial engineer extraordinaire, of the FTMBA ’19 class starts from humble roots in the Midwest. She later moved to Georgia with her family to attend high school and college at Georgia Tech. She pursued her passion for math and science which lead her to a career in industrial engineering. Bree fires up while talking about her work at Disney World and for the Disney Cruise Lines in Florida, where she helped manage everything from the logistics of thousands of costumes to the planning of cruise ship renovations. We then talk about the 900-lb gorilla in the room, how despite diversity efforts at Haas and through programs such as the Consortium, there is still a severe underrepresentation of Black, Hispanic, and Native American students in MBA programs. Bree speaks candidly about the courage required to join a program where you are severely underrepresented and is unreflective of the general population. I ask her on advice for underrepresented students who may be sitting on the fence