The Princeton Teacher Prep Program was a lifeline for me as a new graduate during the 2008 recession. It gave me the skills I needed to begin a career in education, but it also sent me down a path that would become much more than a job, but a big piece of my identity and a lifelong passion for making science and statistics more accessible and engaging for students of all ages. Data is everywhere. We are all immersed in it constantly. Providing students with the skills, but also the awareness to turn that to their advantage as active rather than passive producers and consumers of data is a goal that I will be working towards for the foreseeable future.