Dennis Pearl is Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University and Director of the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE). He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. This interview took place via email on November 18-29, 2016, and provides Dennis Pearl's background story, which describes how he began his career in statistics. Topics covered in the interview include: (1) his early career at Berkeley; (2) the Statistics Buffet project; (3) education research; (4) his role as Director of the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE); and (5) the move from Ohio State University to Penn State.