This second episode features Molly Cain, director of the Office of Venture and Innovation at the Homeland Security Department. Her story begins in Texas, where she studied journalism and later became an entrepreneur. Her life took an interesting spin when she found herself at a Tex-Mex restaurant with a senior government official offering her a job at DHS. She accepted — and began commuting between Dallas and D.C.
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Molly Cain, Director of Venture & Innovation at the Department of Homeland Security

How an entrepreneur in Texas found her way to D.C.

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Molly Cain Director of Venture & Innovation Department of Homeland Security
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