女童子军的首席执行官想把今天的Cookie Sellers Into Tomorrow's Powerful Female EntrepreneursSylvia Acevedo wants every girl to know how to access -- and create -- opportunity.
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Sylvia Acevedo is used to being the onlywomanin the room. The engineer and rocket scientist spent the bulk of her career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, along with stints at Dell and IBM, but she never doubted herself in those rarefied settings. That's something she credits to lessons learned at a very young age, taught by passionate leaders at theGirl Scouts. Now, as the CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, she's working to increase and expand STEM activities among members, improve outreach to minority communities and build strategic partnerships that will help set up Girl Scouts to become theentrepreneursof the future, long after they've sold their last box of Samoas.
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