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Growing up, Heidi Pellerano wanted to be an Olympic athlete and the first Puerto Rican woman on the moon. Instead, she earned a degree in electrical engineering from Duke University and got a job working for a consulting firm embedded at the Pentagon with the Air Force’s B-1 bomber team, which sought to rebuild the plane for the post-Cold War era. If that wasn’t enough, Pellerano moonlighted as a youth basketball coach.
“I was doing a pretty high-level job right out of school, and I went through that process of ‘What comes next?’” she said.
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