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An academic star is born, as a young Kathryn Sanner<br />
is about to head off to her first day of school.<br />
High school graduation day for Kathryn Sanner, left,<br />
and her friends Morgan Eckenrod, Kelsey Seymour<br />
and Mariah Seymour.<br />
magna cum laude in less than the traditional four years.<br />
She did, however, realize that she wasn’t nearly<br />
interested enough in things like torts and other<br />
aspects of law to make it a career. Instead, she<br />
majored in political science.<br />
With this move she managed to include some travel<br />
into her academic itinerary.<br />
In her junior year, she spent a semester in Prague,<br />
where she studied European Union policy and Eastern<br />
and Central European politics. She even learned how<br />
to speak passable Czech. She also took advantage of<br />
the continent’s convenient transportation to take side<br />
trips to several other countries.<br />
In 2014, shortly after completing her bachelor’s<br />
degree, she began working for the Association of<br />
National Advertisers (ANA) as an administrative<br />
assistant. A year later she was promoted to legislative<br />
analyst.<br />
At 23, she was working with industrial giants,<br />
such as Hershey and Proctor & Gamble. After<br />
handling that job for about a year, she decided,<br />
sure, she could add a full-time grad school course<br />
load into her life, so she went back to George<br />
Washington University to get her master’s degree in<br />
public policy.<br />
Somehow, amid the demands of work and school,<br />
Sanner found the time to find a boyfriend, Nathan<br />
Pobre, who helped her take advantage of the little<br />
“me time” she had during that period. He’s also<br />
contributed to her lifelong world tour.<br />
Nathan’s family is from Guam, and his father is<br />
originally from the Philippines. Since they’ve been<br />
together, Sanner has traveled with Nathan’s family to<br />
both places. Chalk up another continent.<br />
Finding her place, at her own pace<br />
With her master’s degree now in hand and her new<br />
job at TCA, this spring has marked a transition into a<br />
new chapter, one that promises a downshift back to a<br />
more balanced life.<br />
“Trying to find hobbies is my next challenge,”<br />
Sanner said.<br />
She has picked up one new hobby in the last couple<br />
years — competitive bocce.<br />
“Now that I’m out of school, I’m full into bocce,”<br />
she said.<br />
Bocce? That’s a game you’d expect to see<br />
gravel-voiced, cigar-champing old guys with names<br />
like Carmine and Louie playing “back in the old<br />
neighborhood,” not young professionals playing on<br />
the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol.<br />
But that is where you’ll find Sanner and her friends<br />
Thursday evenings, spring, summer and fall.<br />
“It’s pretty neat to be playing bocce right in front<br />
of one of the nation’s most important landmarks,”<br />
Sanner said.<br />
It began about three years ago, she explained. One of<br />
her sorority sisters joined an alumni group that featured<br />
a “social sports league.” One of the sports offered was<br />
bocce. One by one, Sanner and her friends gave it a try,<br />
part of the fun being that it was a “totally random thing.”<br />
“None of us knew anything about bocce going in,”<br />
she said. “We kind of thought, ‘isn’t this a game that<br />
our grandparents played?’”<br />
They had so much fun they decided to form their<br />
own team and joined a league.<br />
“It’s not super competitive,” Sanner said, though<br />
she’s quick to note that they’ve won the championship<br />
Q & A With Kathryn Sanner<br />
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: February 1, 1992, in<br />
Brookville, Pennsylvania<br />
MY TRADEMARK EXPRESSION IS: “Will do!”<br />
MOST HUMBLING EXPERIENCE: Losing my passport<br />
before my flight home from Guatemala<br />
PEOPLE SAY I REMIND THEM OF: Kate Middleton<br />
I HAVE A PHOBIA OF: Spiders<br />
MY GUILY PLEASURE IS: Cheetos<br />
THE PEOPLE I’D INVITE TO MY FANTASY DINNER<br />
PARTY: George Washington, J.K. Rowling, Amy Poehler and<br />
Alex Trebek<br />
I WOULD NEVER WEAR: Overalls<br />
MY GREATEST PROBLEM AS A PROFESSIONAL IS:<br />
Embracing the “hurry up and wait” of advocacy<br />
A GOAL I HAVE YET TO ACHIEVE: Traveling to every<br />
continent<br />
THE LAST BOOK I READ: “My Own Words” by Ruth Bader<br />
Ginsburg<br />
LAST MOVIE I SAW: “Black Panther”<br />
MY FAVORITE SONG: “Follow Your Arrow,” by Kacey<br />
Musgraves<br />
IF I’VE LEARNED ONE THING IN LIFE, IT WOULD BE:<br />
Your relationship with your family is irreplaceable<br />
THE THING ABOUT MY OFFICE IS: It’s still pretty sparse!<br />
ONE WORD TO SUM ME UP: Genuine<br />
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