Throughout her life, Tiffany McRae has been driven by a love of learning. As an undergraduate at California State University, Sacramento, she majored in psychology and minored in communications, while also completing a fellowship with the U.S. Department of Education’s prestigious McNair Scholars program. Upon graduation, she quickly began working her way up in the workforce, learning all she could as she ascended from a customer service representative to a supervisor with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), a community-owned, nonprofit electric service.