This is the second of several video clips that focus on Paweena Lizarraga who came to the USA from Thailand in 2006 and trained at City College of San Francisco on the Bridge to Biotech program where she received her laboratory certification. She explains that this one year course offers the necessary mathematics and science to prepare her for a career as a technician and lab assistant, and stresses that it is not necessary to have a science background for the course. It does help however to love science and scientific questioning, as clearly she does. Paweena works now as a lab aid at The Gladstone Institute's new research facility located at the USCF campus in Mission Bay. She loves her work in stem cell research, and talks really positively about job opportunities in the biotech field in companies, government jobs or working for research institutes in academic institutions. Work Voices is a KQED Education project developed in partnership with colleges and adult schools in the Bay Area. The project presents a series of authentic interviews with former ESL students who are now employed in vocational areas that offer feasible career opportunities for immigrants. We hope to introduce options that ESL students may like to consider. The interviews are filmed in segments so that educators can use them flexibly or in different contexts. Find more videos @ kqed.org/workvoices