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- My name is Darwin Salazar.
I am an Administration of Justice major.
What made me decide ADJ is
after I met with Dave Smith,
he let me know about the cyber security,
Homeland Security program.
Technology is not goin'
anywhere anytime soon.
If anything it's only going
to continue growing exponentially.
I saw it as a huge opportunity to just get
into the Administration of Justice program
and take that route.
This summer, I'll be going to Michigan
to intern with Ford Motors.
In cyber security, there's the blue team
and then there's the red team.
The blue team plays the defensive side
and the red team goes on the attack.
Essentially, what we're trying to do is
simulate what happens in real life.
And the red team is only trying to find
vulnerabilities within the vehicle
that could be exploited by criminals.
And then after I come back from
interning with Ford Motors,
I've accepted a full time
offer with Johnson & Johnson
to work on the security
of their medical devices.
The Administration of Justice
program really taught me how
to approach cyber security
from a different perspective.
It taught me the legal
approach, the business approach,
which included the
ramifications that your business
could face if they don't
take Cybersecurity seriously enough.
It also taught me the
operational side of it.
So a lot of, I would say hands on training
with the mobile forensics
course, especially.
I'm still thinkin' about
law school because I do have
the Administration of Justice
background and hopefully
being able to tie my technical acumen
with my legal background
and my legal degree,
being able to tie those together.
I could accomplish some pretty
big things in the legal field.
Growin' up in the South
Side of Providence,
it was a tough upbringing.
I wasn't always the smartest kid.
I made dumb decisions,
I didn't apply myself.
Salve really empowered
me, it gave me a voice.
Nobody ever told me no
while here at Salve.
And that's something that
I'll take with me forever.
I started goin' back to my high school
and talkin' to some of the students there.
They were just like me,
they're kind of at risk youth.
I kind of just wanna give them my story
and see if that would motivate them.
And I always felt like if
I impacted one of those
kids' lives, then I'm
fulfilling my purpose.
Now that I have that voice on campus
and back in my community, I
will continue to give back.
When I tell students my story
they kind of don't believe it
but I tell them, I don't believe it.
I kind of just tell 'em
I don't believe it either
but with hard work you're
able to accomplish anything.
There's a lot more work to do.
And I think I'll never be fully satisfied
with where I'm at and that's a good
and a bad thing because
sometimes I'm too hard on myself.
But also it's what gives me
the drive to keep accomplishing
the things that I've been accomplishing.
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