When she got out of college in 2012, Lora Lee knew she wanted to find a challenging career. She’d been a good student at Dartmouth so had several options available to her. Since she’d always thought she’d become an attorney, she quickly latched onto a paralegal job at a top firm. And she was doing well, eventually assisting a team of 16 attorneys with discovery and deposition prep on a litigation team. Despite her early success, though, Lora wasn’t happy.

I wanted to see what it would be like before I made the commitment [to a life in law]. I realized it wasn’t what I wanted to do