Micah begins by describing his application to UC Irvine and his time as a graduate student in the program. At minute 5:00, he goes on to talk about looking for a position after graduation and to describe his trajectory at Goucher College from assistant professor to becoming a member of the President's cabinet and college board trustee. At minute 22:50, Micah shares how he decided to leave his successful academic career to join the NSA to work in Data and Machine Learning and becoming the Chief IT Data Officer. At minute 34:10 he talks about careers with the NSA, at minute 38:00 he gives advice about applying and interviewing for jobs in academia and government.

The slides of the talk are also available.