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- Sylvia Acevedo was named the CEO of Girl Scouts in 2017 and introduced STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) programs to the organization.
- Prior, Acevedo was a rocket scientist for NASA, industrial engineer for IBM, and presidential commissioner for the Obama White House.
- While at IBM, Acevedo went after a promotion in international management and was turned down because she was a woman. She took on the task anyway and was hired on the spot.
Sylvia Acevedo runs one of the most recognizable all-girl organizations in America: the Girl Scouts. But she wasn't always surrounded by women in her career and faced obstacles as a Hispanic woman in male-dominated fields.
One of Acevedo's first jobs was at a proverbial boys' club; she was an industrial engineer for IBM in 1980, she said on an episode of Business Insider's podcast "This Is Success" (formerly "Success! How I Did It").
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