After years of short-term research jobs, moving all around the US, I interviewed for my dream job - teaching, outreach, research... at a teaching-oriented university, which I really wanted. By then it had become very clear that an anti-science, anti-academic movement was in full swing. Corporate funded science applications, but the knowledge underlying it didn’t make immediate profit. People who had been failed by for-profit medicine were turning elsewhere. I thought: education can fix this.