What I’d say to me back then - Digital.ai’s Patricia Prince-Taggart says to get into every room, even if it’s uncomfortable being there

Patricia Prince-Taggart, General Counsel and Head of Talent at Digital.ai, had an unusual path into the technology sector. When she left law school, she originally wanted to be a public defender, with the intention of solving all the world’s problems.

But in reality, she couldn't afford it, encumbered as she was by huge student debt. Prince-Taggart joined a law firm instead, but realized early on that wasn’t going to be her long-term place. She recalls:

I had my second child at the time, I was leaving the courthouse and she was four weeks old and it was not for me.

Prince-Taggart and her husband made the decision to move from Connecticut to Texas, where there was what she calls a budding IBM mentality. This is the move that led her into the technology space. She explains:

IBM was a big industry in a town that I ...