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The signs were always there for Melissa Munguia. A job as a certified nursing assistant dealing with life and death issues at an assisted living home. Search and rescue missions as a member of the Texas State Guard. And then, as she was researching a large scale dam failure as a maritime studies senior at Texas A&M in Galveston, Munguia realized what all the signs were pointing toward.

“I don’t want to say I fell into it, but all of my paths led me to emergency management,” says Munguia. “I've always been a person that stays very calm during an emergency.”

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