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EK: This is Emi Kuboyama with Stanford University. It's September 12, 2019, we're in Temple Hills, Maryland. Good morning, Pam.

PD: Good morning, Emi, how are you?

EK: I'm fine. Why don't we start with you introducing yourself, your full name, and your Office of Redress Administration role or title?

PD: My name is Pamela Dixon, and my title with the Office of Redress Administration was data entry technician, so that is what I started doing.

EK: And where were you born and raised?

PD: I was born in Newport News, Virginia, then came here in the third grade, so I've been raised in D.C., the Maryland, the DMV area ever since.

EK: And could you talk a little bit about your educational background and professional experience before you started at ORA?

PD: Before I started at ORA, I came in as a contractor with Aspen Systems Corporation, and I was just a little old coder. So I kind of worked my way up, became the data entry technician once the redress program started.

EK: So, could you talk a little bit more about how you even became aware of redress when you started with Aspen?

PD: As a coder with Aspen, just being, working for them and being in that office setting, the redress program came about, and I just happened to be working there at the time when it started.

EK: So were you working at DOJ through Aspen prior to redress starting?

PD: Yes. I was always a contractor with Aspen Systems working for DOJ.

EK: Got it. And how long did you work with ORA?

PD: I started as a coder when I was just out of high school. So I was a coder and I had been working there ever since.

EK: So about how many years was that?

PD: I want to say at least ten.

EK: Wow.

PD: Yeah, at least ten.

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