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accepted me into the program. That was my first experience, my

first job in the Justice Department under Bobby Kennedy. I was
in the Internal Security Division. We were looking at espionage
cases and those kinds of issues. During my two years at Justice, I
worked on a very famous espionage case in Newark, New Jersey.

That was the beginning.
From there, I was recruited for the EEOC (Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission). That was closer to my
ideal. I wanted to get into civil rights; I wanted to use the law to

change things. I had the opportunity to join EEOC when it first
opened its doors as a lawyer in the compliance division.
Then, I went to Capitol Hill and worked in the Senate and the
House. Along with that comes relationships, people who

recommended me for my first job: Barbara Justice was a Justice
Department lawyer who referred me to a Peace Corps person that
she knew.

I worked there for a year and a half and was then recruited by
some friends to join the Peace Corps as staff went with my wife
and three kids to Nigeria as Peace Corps staff. From there I was
made Country Director for the Peace Corps in Uganda, East

Africa. I had experience in law and government through the
Justice Department, EEOC, and the Peace Corps.
Then I went on to work at Chesapeake and Potomac (C&P)
Telephone Company. I spent ten years in those five different

agencies: Justice, EEOC, Peace Corps, Capitol Hill, in the Senate,
and the House. After my career in government, I started working
as a Public Affairs Manager at Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company, which was the largest private employer in

the District of Columbia.
One of the first things my boss did was say that I could
continue to work with the D.C. Committee for Self-

determination, which was a committee looking at how we could

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