After completing my bachelor of honors degree in Mechanical Engineering. I was unsure if I was going to stay in the engineering space. Like many recent engineering graduate, I tried my hand at a corporate role in business consulting. I knew from the first month that I missed engineering and I later spent a week interviewing for a graduate program at SNC Lavalin in South Africa. During this week I was exposed to the different departments and projects that the teams were working on - one of these was the Pyrometallurgy department. It was love at first sight. The innovation that was taking place in the small team was electric and the team itself were a passionate and tight knit group. I worked hard to be accepted into the program and got accepted to join the department as the first female and graduate that they had taken on. My passion for pyrometallurgy grew from there and it has since shaped my career.