[10][11] She then attended Macalester College, where she earned her BA in psychology and graduated summa cum laude in 1999.

[12] While at Harvard Business School, Ransom co-developed a distributed booking system for small and medium size travel companies, resulting in a summer at Highland Capital Partners as an Entrepreneur in Residence.

[13] In 2008, Ransom founded Wildfire Interactive, a social marketing software company initially developed to help promote Access Trips.

[1] Ransom ran Wildfire as chief executive officer and grew the company to 400 employees in four years.

[17][18] In 2013, she was invited to the White House by Barack Obama to receive a "Champion of Change" award recognizing her contributions as an immigrant entrepreneur.